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Life Sentences

Opening remarks from the Conference on Incarceration and the Humanities

November 30, 2017 • by N. D. B. Connolly

Now, you could imagine the horrors of a colonial prison in a black, economically depressed country like 1930s Jamaica, just as you can imagine the nightmare that the sound of wailing men might conjure in the mind of a nine-year old child like my grandfather. Even the most benign administrative ...

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The Antidote to “Too Much Niebuhr”?

A.J. Muste and the Anti-American Political Tradition

November 15, 2017 • by Ray Haberski

The conflict between radical pacifists and other Protestants went deeper than the question of the United States’ role in the world; it was also about national identity, race, and historical memory. To Muste, when policymakers posited the United States as the representative of democratic civilization, they effectively erased its history ...

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An Unreasonable Standard

Reconsidering law, race and police violence

November 13, 2017 • by Jennifer M. Page

Wilcox escaped the Coburns, but 30 minutes later, was confronted by another police officer, Jesse Kidder. Wilcox left his vehicle and ran at Kidder. “Shoot me, shoot me,” Wilcox said again and again, still running forward. “I don’t want to shoot you, man,” yelled Kidder as he backed up. Wilcox ...

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What We Really Learned in Charlottesville

Finding a Way Forward

November 9, 2017 • by Andrew Boyer

By the standards of today’s whiplash news cycles, the coverage was in-depth and lasting. The media did not move on from the issue so much as it overexerted itself and wearily stumbled on to the Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Trump’s DACA repeal. When the dust settled, nearly everyone agreed ...

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Towards Our Fugitive Striving

A Note from the Editors

November 6, 2017 • by Deva Woodly and Christopher Paul Harris

The Context We understand that race is made through the brutal craft of white supremacy: a political, social, economic, and interpersonal formation that both requires and produces anti-blackness to sustain itself. Equally clear to us is that racial “knowledge,” in all its forms, continues to structure our collective experience, both in ...

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The Times They Are a Changin’?

The Halloween Attack in New York and the Prospects for Democracy

November 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I hope that the global march of authoritarianism, with Donald Trump in the vanguard, is a momentary reaction that will be overwhelmed by a broad democratic front, one that rejects xenophobia, terror, irrationality and fear. But, I also know that the authoritarian turn, a radical reinvention of political culture, is ...

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Who are the Rebels in the Catalan Democracy Crisis?

Evil is never obvious

November 1, 2017 • by Jordan Luber

Catalonia has 16% of Spain’s population. It accounts for 25% of its exports and 19% of the Spanish GDP. After Spain’s financial collapse in 2008, the secessionist movement began to gather steam, saying that Catalonia gives more money to Spain than it gets back.[1] In 2014 an unofficial, non-binding referendum ...

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#MeToo, Trump, Weinstein, and the Problem of Individual Responsibility

Society is Guilty

October 30, 2017 • by Bryant William Sculos

More recently, actress Alyssa Milano tweeted that if all the women who have faced unwanted advances or assaults at the hands of the men in their lives tweeted or posted “#MeToo” on social media, maybe men would realize the ubiquity of this heinous problem that women face on a daily ...

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The Virality of Patriotic Antiracism

Combat Veterans and Geopolitical Racism

October 25, 2017 • by Amir Sadeghi

Today, however, the struggle to destabilize the institutional fabric of disenfranchisement, imprisonment, and wealth inequality risks being buried by viral images of combat veterans “taking a knee,” or the children of service members killed in combat signaling their support for the “cause.” Generally speaking, it has become patriotic to stand ...

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Before Charlottesville

An interview with Carolyn McAllaster on the Greensboro Massacre of 1979

October 21, 2017 • by Carolyn McAllaster

Carolyn McAllaster, the Colin W. Brown Clinical Professor of Law and director of the HIV/AIDS Policy Clinic, said the events in Charlottesville and the president’s response to them sparked memories of the Greensboro Massacre in which five protestors died and 11 were injured even before news of the apology broke. ...

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Bronx School Killing, Romance Novels, and Game Shows

Past Present Episode 102

October 15, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate a fatal stabbing at a Bronx high school, the history of the romance novel and its critics, and the evolution of the game show genre.

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Bronx School Killing, Romance Novels, and Game Shows

Education

In the Wake of September’s Georgia Tech Shooting

Mental health on college campuses

October 13, 2017 • by Alice B. Grossman

A few years ago, a close friend at school exhibited signs of mental instability. Whatever he was working through was affecting his own life and happiness as well as that of his friends’. He verbally abused those closest to him and bounced back and forth between interacting as the friend ...