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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 Russell Rickford #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Blood Sugar: A New Book on Food Justice in Black America

January 25, 2017January 27, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi capitalism, Caribbean, Racial Capitalism, racism

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive

January 23, 2017February 18, 2017 Dan Berger #BloodintheWater, archives, carceral state, mass incarceration

This is the second day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Attica: Writing on Blood, Violence, and Trauma in History

January 22, 2017January 25, 2017 Kali Nicole Gross #BloodintheWater, carceral state, criminal justice system, police violence

This is the first day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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The 1967 MLK and the Politics of Transcendence

January 21, 2017January 10, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black politics, Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not thinking about Donald Trump today. I am still hungover from MLK Day. I am still celebrating the

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