False Choices: Identity Politics and Lessons from the Left
Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those
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Labor
Hidden Human Computers: A New Young Adult Book on NASA’s Black Women
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing that announces the publication of selected
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Slavery, the 13th Amendment, and Mass Incarceration: A Response to Patrick Rael
This post is a rebuttal to Patrick Rael’s “Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration.” Dear Professor
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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 2
This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part
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Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration
We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New
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