Above: A man too dangerous for Texas prisoners The U.S. prison system is primarily designed to lock up people of color, control their labor, and humiliate them. There is very.
As I am desperately trying to write the draft of my book on strikes, one of the things I've had to sacrifice is writing book reviews here. They take too.
On March 15, 1940, John Ford's film version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, was released to universal acclaim. This was perhaps the greatest moment of the cultural left.
Yesterday, in a different forum, our valued commenter Bijan Parsia complained about Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Basically, his complaint, if I may summarize, is that.
Above: Lincoln's funeral Ari Kelman and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm excerpt their new graphic novel on the Civil War. You should read it.
Randall Kennedy has an interesting long book review of new biographies of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and Huey Newton. I haven't read any of them, not even Manning Marable's acclaimed.
I was going to try and write a proper review of Greil Marcus' new book The History of Rock N' Roll in Ten Songs for the blog. But I found.
Interesting essay on the influence of the racial stereotypes in Uncle Tom's Cabin on German conceptions of American racial issues. For Jim O’Loughlin, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a popular artefact.
