Attica Means Fight Back: History and Storytelling as 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, 2016). Today
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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence
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
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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Teaching in an Uprising: Readings on Race and Democracy
Since March, I’ve been teaching an introductory social sciences seminar which has the thematic focus of “race and democracy.” We
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Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction
This week we are revisiting Therí A. Pickens’s new book, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press, 2019). Today we
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