Blood in the Water: An Author’s Response
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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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past
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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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books,
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Violence, Empathy, and Solidarity, in the New History of Policing
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing
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Black Feminist Alchemy, Reproductive Justice, and the Carceral State
In the poem “Revolution is One Form of Social Change,” Audre Lorde describes patriarchy as the foundation of the inequality
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