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Reckoning with Carceral Technologies Through Abolition

November 17, 2020November 23, 2020 Brittany Friedman #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, prisons

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

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How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Brandon James Render Black film, civil rights, race

Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,

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Chadwick Boseman and the Semiotics of Liberation

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Walter Greason MEDIA, social justice

The actor’s gift is to see themselves through the eyes of their audience, while maintaining an internal sense of sincerity

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Civil Rights Activism in the “Jim Crow North”

August 20, 2020August 27, 2020 Matthew F. Delmont New York, segregation

Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets

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How Racist Ideas Shaped the Era of Reconstruction

August 18, 2020August 17, 2020 Rann Miller racism, reconstruction

Growing up, I’ve heard many definitions of the term racism, however just last year I read the best definition to

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