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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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Categorization for Commodification: Racial Control in Colonial America

March 6, 2020March 1, 2020 Shaquan McDowell Historical Memory, Interracial relationships, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

There is difficulty in formalizing the lines of the African American category: who falls within its brackets and whose history

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The Imperial History of US Policing: An Interview with Stuart Schrader

January 29, 2020January 26, 2020 Dan Berger African Diaspora, black protest, Black radicalism, police brutality, police violence, policing, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

In today’s interview, Dan Berger speaks with Stuart Schrader about his new book, Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed

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Playwright, Storyteller, and Critical Educator: An Interview with Rachel Maddox

December 6, 2019November 30, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, education, LGBT, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Rachel Maddox who is a Black, non-binary playwright, teaching artist, and critical educator based

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New Attacks, New Resistance, and an Old Alliance Against the New Confederacy

November 7, 2019November 3, 2019 Aaron Jamal Activism, African Diaspora, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Donald Trump, Politics, Resistance, white supremacy

The latest round of attacks by the openly white supremacist Trump government against indigenous people — and their resistance — is at

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