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Notes on Archival War

Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.

Join Tanya Maria Golash-Boza for the Before Gentrification Book Tour

“A must-read for those interested in understanding how anti-Black policy decisions drive mass incarceration, gentrification, and dire racial inequality in Washington, DC, and throughout our nation.”—Derek Hyra, author of Race, Class, and Politics …

The Southern Cross of Honor: how insurrections become legitimized

This blog post explores a lesser-known piece of Confederate iconography, the Southern Cross of Honor. The US government’s gradual complicity in the establishment of these markers reveals how, and why, some insurrections become legitimized over time.