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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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Freedom as Marronage as Anti-capitalism

December 8, 2016January 21, 2017 Patrick Nichols Jamaica, marronage

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

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The American Revolution, Race, and the Failed Beginning of a Nation

December 7, 2016December 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Donald Trump, emancipation, law, racism, slavery

Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted

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Black Power’s Global Pulse

November 30, 2016November 30, 2016 Quito J. Swan Black Panther Party, black radical tradition

This year, the Black Panther Party (BPP), arguably the most influential Black Power organization, celebrated fifty years since its founding.

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Prison Abolition Syllabus

November 20, 2016September 4, 2018 Guest Poster mass incarceration

On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking

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