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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Robert Chase carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books,

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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive

June 2, 2020June 1, 2020 Dan Berger

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Violence, Empathy, and Solidarity, in the New History of Policing

April 6, 2020April 5, 2020 Dan Berger #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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Voices of Freedom Outside the South: An Oral History Resource

July 23, 2019July 15, 2019 Say Burgin archives, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, education, oral history, race, teaching

Some of my most exciting moments as an educator have been seeing how students engage with oral histories from the

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The History and Failure of Prison in Washington

February 5, 2019March 31, 2019 Dan Berger prisons

The following essay is excerpted from my introduction to the second edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla,

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