The Last Days of Louisiana Red — Reed, Ishmael, 1938- — "The Last Days of Louisiana Red blends paradox, hyperbole, understatement and signifyin' so expertly you can almost hear a droll black voice telling the tales as you read it."-The New Republic
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San D…
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the la…
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texa…
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi…
"Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period,…
Between Threat and Reality: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Emergence of Armed Self-Defense in Clarksdale and Natchez, Mississippi, 1960-1965
Annelieke Dirks, Between Threat and Reality: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Emergence of Armed Self-Defense in Clarksdale and Natchez, Mississippi, 1960-1965, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 71-98
Not a new Weimar, or new 1930s: “We live in a period without a real precedent”. Interview with Anton Jäger
Upon the release of his new book Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences, September sat down with historian of political thought Anton Jäger to discuss the rise of the new right, the dynamics of politicization in contemporary Western societies, and what the current historical moment demands from the left.
A Concordance of the Yellow Sign
I’m currently doing a deep dive into the mythology of the Yellow Sign and the King in Yellow. Originally created by Robert W. Chambers for his 1895 short story collection The King in Yellow, they
Dream of the Red Chamber
This textbook is currently being revised, so content may change between visits.
From Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the law
The Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story.
Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2024. 290 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1-68571-190-0. DOI: 10.53288/0466.1.00. OPEN-ACCESS e-book and $39.00 in print: paperbound/7 X 10 in.
The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
The dark side of the hut, 50 years later
Grace and wonder amid famine, pestilence, and drought
“One Battle After Another” Reminds Me What I Want From White Art - Electric Literature
Latine activism is an unusual addition to Paul Thomas Anderson's milk-pale oeuvre
Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
