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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/12/2021
Criminal Justice Reform Won’t Work Until it Focuses on Black Women
by Talitha L. LeFlouria
The history of mass incarceration is also the history of control and exploitation of Black women through the criminal justice system. Reforms need to recognize the impacts of the system on women to advance justice.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
2/1/2021
Law Enforcement’s Double Standards for Black Radical Activists
by Denise Lynn
Those puzzled at the FBI's inability to monitor white supremacist and right-wing extremist groups like those involved in the Capitol rioting should consider how the bureau has historically worked to surveil and harass radical Black organizations like the Sojourners for Truth and Justice.
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2/7/2021
Weaponized Whiteness: Invisible Hand and Iron Fist
by Fran Shor
There is a link between the summer's BLM protests and the Capitol riots. Both reflect a crisis of a political order based on the maintenance of white supremacy and nonwhite subordination through the "invisible hand" of institutions.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
1/28/2021
UCLA Wins $3.65-Million Grant to Build ‘Age of Mass Incarceration’ Archive with LAPD Records
In addition to 177 boxes of LAPD records, which the university fought for and won access to in court, the project will seek out and include oral histories and other ephemera from community members who were affected by the region’s aggressive criminal justice pipelines, said professor Kelly Lytle Hernández.
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SOURCE: New York Historical Society
1/25/2021
The Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History Seminar Spring 2021 Session (Virtual)
The Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce its spring 2021 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty: America’s Unregulated Police.
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SOURCE: Public Books
1/18/2021
When Black Humanity is Denied
by Edna Bonhomme
Enlightenment institutions – the prison, science, and asylums – are organized through binaries that draw boundaries between people who are and are not able to exercise freedom. Black artistic work supports Black freedom by challenging those boundaries.
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SOURCE: Public Books
1/20/2021
Solidarity is a Process: Talking with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Josh Kun, and Destin Jenkins
A panel of scholars discusses the concept of cross-racial solidarity and the prospects of creating powerful coalitions of the disempowered.
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SOURCE: The Metropole
1/4/2021
Disciplining The City: Scholarship And The Carceral State Year In Review 2020
Charlotte Rosen and Matthew Guariglia compile 2020's most essential works of scholarship on the nexus of urbanization, racism, policing, and mass incarceration.
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SOURCE: NPR
1/7/2020
Some Point Out Differences In Police Treatment Of Capitol Riot And BLM Protests
NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor in Princeton University's Department of African American Studies, about how police handled the breach of the Capitol.
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SOURCE: Capital Times (Madison, WI)
12/13/2020
Q&A: Simon Balto Uncovers the History of Racist Policing and the Futility of Reform
The author of "Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago" argues that the police resist reform because they are, in fact, operating in line with their historical mission of protecting a hierarchical society.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
12/1/2020
Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (Review)
by Don S. Polite, Jr.
A review of Marisol LeBrón's "Policing Life and Death" which connects the turn to austerity governance in Puerto Rico with increasingly punitive and racially discriminatory policing practices.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
11/17/2020
I Don't Have to Forgive Joe Biden
by Christopher Lebron
"I choose to believe he is ready to be transformed by the times, his peers, and the mandate given to him in defeating good ol’ white supremacy. I can accept Biden for the purpose of dealing with him for the moment."
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/20/2020
The Crimes of the Campus Police
by Grace Watkins
"The problems with the campus police are already apparent to anyone willing to look, and gender-based violence by campus officers is an important part of the case for abolition."
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
10/14/2020
The So-Called ‘Kidnapping Club’ Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery
by Jonathan Daniel Wells
"It often mattered little whether a black person was born free in New York or had in fact escaped bondage; the police, reinforced by judges like the notorious city recorder Richard Riker, sent the accused to southern plantations with little concern and often even less evidence."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/1/2020
How Trump Brought Home the Endless War
by Stephen Wertheim
The Global War on Terror reconfigured American foreign policy around military force against abstract ideas and indeterminate enemies. The divisions of domestic politics set the stage for Donald Trump to move the war to the streets of the United States.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/24/2020
Correcting the Misinformation about Breonna Taylor
by Radley Balko
The Post's policing expert suggests that the Kentucky Attorney General's statements about the grand jury process in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police officers is part of a broad pattern of misinformation.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/26/2020
The Long History of Chemical Weapons in Civilian Law Enforcement
by Thomas Faith
Chemical weapons developed for World War I found their way into civilian policing to repress labor movements despite the objections of military leaders like General John Pershing.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
9/18/2020
Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor
by Andrew Grim
Newark’s experience cautions today’s activists to be wary of channeling the urgency, the radicalism, the moral authority of this current moment into electoral politics.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/24/2020
The Origins of Policing in America
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Media Studies scholar Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.
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SOURCE: Toward Freedom
9/19/2020
Against State Capture
by Austin McCoy
Austin McCoy warns that the energy of today's protest movements, which demand deep changes to the organization of society, is at risk of being captured and contained by small-scale reforms. The challenge for "abolition democracy" is to involve people in deciding how to dismantle and replace repressive institutions.
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