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Making the American Syllabus: Hashtag Syllabi in Historical Perspective

October 24, 2016October 22, 2016 Lisa A. Monroe #CharlestonSyllabus

Hashtag syllabi such as #FergusonSyllabus and #CharlestonSyllabus assemble critical intellectual resources and promote collective study both within and outside of

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First Strike: A New Book on Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles

October 24, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Los Angeles

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Managed Democracy and the Illusion of Politics

October 23, 2016October 22, 2016 Russell Rickford 2016 Presidential Election, democracy, electoral politics, Politics

Now that another sordid election cycle is almost behind us, the pundit class has begun to issue the customary pleas

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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th

October 22, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger carceral state

When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause

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Racial Division and Trauma in the Comics

October 19, 2016November 25, 2016 Sam Knowles #comicsandrace, comic books, Luke Cage

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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