Blog by Tony Platt* It’s “déjà vu all over again,” said Police Commissioner William J. Bratton following the recent killing of two New York officers. He was referring to the turbulent 1970s, when in response to the supposed targeting of … Continue reading
by Sunaina Maira* In 2016, a bill targeting organizations that choose to divest from Israel, AB 2844, was proposed in the California state legislature. In 2015, New York Governor Mario Cuomo also issued an executive order creating a blacklist of … Continue reading
(Click on any author’s name to download the pdf) 1999–1995 (Vols. 26–22) 2015– | 2014–2010 | 2009–2005 | 2004–2000 | 1994–1990 | 1989–1985 | 1984–1980 | 1979–1974 26:4 (1999) Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America Paz Rojas B., Impunity and the Inner History of Life … Continue reading
by Gilberto Arriaza* The arc of the school-to-prison pipeline begins in elementary school and moves through middle and high school. Youth then land in the juvenile legal system and, eventually, in the country’s vast prison system. According to current Assistant … Continue reading
by Tony Platt* I have been teaching about the history of inequalities in the United States for more than forty years. I started off using oral histories in my curriculum when it was against the grain to do so. I … Continue reading
by Hilda Lloréns, Ruth Santiago, Carlos G. Garcia-Quijano, and Catalina M. de Onís* Hurricanes are thought of as “natural” disasters, but the social and environmental devastation wrought upon Puerto Rico by Hurricane María last September is really an unnatural disaster resulting from a long history of … Continue reading
by Tony Platt* Anniversaries provide many opportunities for revisionist and wishful thinking about the past. The 50th anniversary of the Kerner Report is no exception. The new mythology remakes the Kerner Commission as a bastion of liberal democracy and enlightened … Continue reading
by James Kilgore* There are moments when our longings for social justice cloud our vision, times when the way we want the world to be blocks our understanding of the way things really are. A good example of this is … Continue reading
by Alessandro De Giorgi* In a much-quoted segment from the Prison Notebooks, Italian communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci outlined his famous definition of a crisis of hegemony: If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e., is no longer “leading” but … Continue reading
CURRENT ISSUES Vol. 49-3 Beyond Racialized Carceral Safety: Toward a Conceptualization of Black Safety edited by Enkeshi Thom El-Amin, Shaneda Destine & Michelle Brown The call for safety in the United States routinely insists upon the singular expansion of carceral and police … Continue reading