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Struggling for Home at the Edge of Los Angeles: An Interview with Rahim Kurwa By…
Throughout the 2010s, in the Los Angeles County high desert suburbs of Antelope Valley, predominantly Black housing voucher tenants were under siege. This is not…
What Histories Does the Present Demand? Genealogy, Conjuncture, and the Noncitizen Student
Abigail Boggs My PhD is in cultural studies, a field whose methodological promiscuity has always seemed to me less a problem to overcome than a…
Black Women and Biography
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with…
The Badge Means Let’s Rock: A Short Playlist of Songs about (and by) Cops
Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves is about how internal conflicts within the profession of policing have shaped the external influence…
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Japanese Exceptionalism
A century ago, as the great powers fought over land and labor and barreled toward another world war, Du Bois decried the imperial aggression of…
Criminalizing the Casbahs: An Interview with Danielle Beaujon
In the Abusable Past’s latest installment of “What We’re Reading,” Marisol LeBrón interviews Danielle Beaujon about her new book, Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in…
Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, State Violence, and Surveillance
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies(CBFS) is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with the…
Political Rage, Feminist Anger
About the Dis/Order Project Lesson Series This lesson plan is part of a series of assignments and activities developed for the Dis/Order Project, which examines…