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U.S. immigration policy during the Trump presidency and in the years beyond could be outrageous and appalling, but it’s not new.
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Posts tagged: us-politics
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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., we present an updated edition of William F. Pepper's An Act of State.
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Police: A Field Guide, a radical handbook of policing terms
40% off Police: A Field Guide, a radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement, to help build a future free of police.
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A Brief History of School Violence in the United States (2011)
In this Weekend Reads excerpt from Lockdown High, Annette Fuentes reconstructs the history of school violence in the US, as both a fact and a concept, from the nineteenth century onwards.
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Broadside for the Trump Era: McCarthyism 1947–1960
A compact, printable summary of McCarthyism in America by historian Ellen Schrecker.
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Mindful Bodies and Forces of Nature
Three recent moments of the revitalized women's movement can be understood as windows into three levels of analysis and action: individual, social, and political.
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History as a Way of Learning
William Appleman Williams criticizes common abuses of American history and explains his own method.
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Two Movements: Student Mobilizations Against Gun Violence and Black Lives Matter
If the current mobilizations hope to fundamentally change the gun violence and militarism that pervade American society, they will have to take up the ways that Black people are disproportionately impacted by these phenomena.
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"One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before": On Being Presidential
The liberal world is in mourning for this dispositional quiddity, presidentialness.
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Trump 1 Year On: US Politics Reading List
It’s been one year since Donald Trump was inaugurated, and one year since millions of people flooded to the streets for the anti-inauguration protests and the women’s marches to welcome Trump to his first day in office. This US politics reading list will inform and inspire readers to keep resisting.
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The Rise of the Leninist Right
The success of the American far right in shifting the mainstream is built on the repressed strategies of one forgotten wing of 1968: a particular reading of Lenin’s theory of revolution.
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The Need to Confront the Alt-Right
The University of Michigan is preparing for a visit from white supremacist Richard Spencer. If past is prologue, then the UM administration’s policy will tend toward disengagement and caution, rather than effective resistance.
