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Teaching in an Uprising: Readings on Race and Democracy

June 2, 2020June 17, 2020 Trish Kahle race

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

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Kali Nicole Gross

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

May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Denise Lynn anti-capitalism, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics

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

April 27, 2020April 26, 2020 Yannick Marshall police brutality, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism

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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The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis

April 14, 2020April 11, 2020 Rachel Zellars Canada, Historical Memory

Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts

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