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…
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…
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…
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…
By A. Naomi Paik Golnar Nikpour’s striking new book, The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2024), traces the emergence, expansion, and…
https://youtu.be/43cK1FLRStc Aaron Lecklider teaches American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and…
By Marisol LeBrón In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Jorell Meléndez-Badillo details…
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Dr.
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Dr. Elliott H. Powell (Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor…
The execution of Peter Smith in Marshall, N.C., 1905.
Smith was allowed to make a public statement before being hanged out of sight of the crowd. By Rebekah Aycock In Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch tells the history of the death penalty in…