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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…
The Fight for Black Education and Black History: An Interview with Brian Jones, Jesse Hagopian,…
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 online…
Imperial Mobilities, Geographical Imaginaries: A Conversation Between Javier Arbona-Homar and Emily Mitchell-Eaton
In the Abusable Past’s latest installment of “What We’re Reading,” we invited Javier Arbona-Homar and Emily Mitchell-Eaton to discuss their recently released books. Taken together, Arbona-Homar’s Explosivity: Following What Remains(University of…
Malcolm X at 100
By Lucien Baskin Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with…