radical history

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/6/2021
  

  "No There There": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Future of the Left

  "I’m sitting in the car, barreling down the highway, asking myself, 'What happened in my life that has put me in this position where I have to like listen to this &%$*@ nonsense?' I needed to leave. But like most people, I needed the health insurance."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/12/2021
  

  When the Young Lords Took Over a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care

  by Emma Francis-Snyder

  "The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital produced one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide."

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/5/2021
  

  Freedom Education: Dialogues Between Top Scholars and Grad Students

  by Nathan D.B. Connolly and Stuart Schrader

  Nathan D.B. Connolly and Stuart Schrader introduce a series of interviews examining the connections of scholarship and organizing for justice. 

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• 10/3/2021
  

  The Forgotten History of Solidarity Between Black and Indigenous Freedom Movements

  by Kyle T. Mays

  "We have forgotten a similar time in history when African American and Native American activists battled against colonialism and white supremacy, respecting the uniqueness of both groups’ history, but understanding that an end to US empire would require solidarity."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/24/2021
  

  Charles Sellers, 98, Historian Who Upset the Postwar Consensus, Dies

  Charles Sellers was an influential figure in explaining how the rise of market capitalism disrupted all aspects of American life, and argued this change was not for the better. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/20/2021
  

  Beyond the State: An Anarchist History of Humanity

  by Daniel Immerwahr

  The late radical anthropologist David Graeber, with his posthumous collaborator David Wengrow, looks to the long sweep of history to assess the prospect of human self-governance without a powerful state. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  7/30/2021
  

  The Revolution that Wasn't: What did 1960s Radicals Achieve?

  by Michael Kazin

  A new book of narrative history of the 1960s New Left repeats a common error: mistaking rhetoric for revolution and ignoring a key outcome of the decade: that the right emerged more powerful, argues reviewer Michael Kazin. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  7/30/2021
  

  Emails Show U of Mississippi Officials Concerned that Fired Historian Criticized Private Prison Ties, Upset Donors

  "Felber drew a line between the university’s history of slavery, its hand in the creation of the slave plantation-like Parchman Prison and one celebrated instructor’s financial ties to a private-prison corporation."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/29/2021
  

  Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community

  by Robert Hunt Ferguson

  "Founded in 1932, the original Highlander Folk School served as an incubator for many of the important ideas that shaped twentieth-century social movements."

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  7/15/2021
  

  Learn Lessons about Movement Building from Radical Black Women

  by Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer

  Barbara Ransby facilitates a roundtable collaborative essay about the role of women in building radical movements for justice in Black communities encompassing social welfare, economic security, police accountability, women's liberation and more. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/14/2021
  

  From the Labor Struggles of the 1930s to Today, the Highlander School has Sought to Make America More Equitable

  by Jelani M. Favors

  From the Great Depression through the Civil Rights era and beyond, Myles Horton's Highlander Folk School was a rare interracial space for political organizing. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4/22/2021
  

  The Black Panther Party Has Never Been More Popular. But Actual Black Panthers Have Been Forgotten

  "What do veteran Panthers—some of whom are now at an advanced age and fighting to make ends meet after spending more than half their lives in prison—think of this recent boom in artistic and commercial interest?"

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  3/17/2021
  

  The Future of L.A. is Here. Robin D.G. Kelley’s Radical Imagination Shows Us the Way

  Historian Robin Kelley discusses the work of his mentor Cedric Robinson, whose discussions in "Black Marxism" offer a way to circumvent the reductionist tendencies of the class- and race-oriented wings of the left today. 

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• SOURCE: National Humanities Center
  2/2/2021
  

  Jakobi Williams, “​The Black Panthers, Here and Abroad”

  Historian Jakobi Williams discusses the community-based organizing of the Black Panther Party and its national and global influence. 

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• SOURCE: Current Affairs
  10/22/2020
  

  The Real Abbie Hoffman

  by Nathan J. Robinson

  While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.

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• SOURCE: Places Journal
  10/15/2020
  

  “Nothing Stirred in the Air”

  by Stephen Dillon

  The architecture of the "supermax" prison targets the senses and emotions of the incarcerated as a means of control in the wake of political organizing inside and outside of prisons in the 1960s and 1970s. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/13/2020
  

  A Scholar of American Doom Doesn’t See How Capitalism Can Fix This Crisis

  "There are probably a billion and a half people, maybe more, maybe 2 billion, in the informal working class who have simply been triaged already in advance. So the fate of a very large minority of humanity has been determined now."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/23/2020
  

  Malcolm Chase, 1957-2020

  The social historian Malcolm Chase rejected “the enormous condescension of posterity” often to be found in history written by the educated rich.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/1/19
  

  A Century Ago, May Day Brought Anarchist Bombs to Mailboxes—And Helped Transform American Politics

  by Katrina Gulliver

  On April 30, the Evening World ran an extra edition that, under the headline “NATION-WIDE TERRORIST PLOT,” described the “infernal machines” as part of a conspiracy.