by Leigh Goodmark, author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence If you had told me 25 years ago that I would eventually call myself a prison …
Read More >By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing July 17, 2020 Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island …
Read More >By Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life (coming November 2020) The image of a darkened White House from several weeks ago, while screams of protest clamored …
Read More >by Randy Shaw, author of The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century Blacks Lives Matter (BLM) has become the broadest, most diverse social movement of our time. Having written The …
Read More >by Carolyn McLaughlin, author of South Bronx Battles Last year, I released South Bronx Battles, a chronicle and tribute to the South Bronx as a community that has worked to create a …
Read More >In contributing to a global turn in media studies, this special issue has offered context-specific conceptual and empirical reflection on mediated, digitized, and datafied processes co-shaping migration and nationalism across Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
Read More >By Nikki Jones, author of The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption Calls to defund the police often elicit fear. How will I stay safe, wonder people who associate …
Read More >The work of addressing society’s core challenges—whether they be persistent inequality, a failing education system, or global climate change—can be accelerated when scholarship assumes its role as an agent of engagement and …
Read More >For Juneteenth—today’s holiday commemorating Union army general Gordon Granger’s reading of federal orders in Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865, proclaiming that Texan slaves were free (in light of the fact that …
Read More >By Joshua Bloom, co-author of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Denial of systemic racism continues following Derrick Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd. A friend told …
Read More >
