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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Attica: Writing on Blood, Violence, and Trauma in History
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon
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Confronting Reactionaries: Black Support for The Progressive Party During the Cold War
During the Cold War, progressive voices were being drowned out by the drumbeat of war, as military and political relations
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“We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak
It has been two years since Stephon Clark was killed in his grandmother’s backyard. Two years since Rev. Al Sharpton
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