Orisanmi Burton’s new book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, he explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized t...
by Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer
The author team of Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer takes travelers out of our nation’s capital and into Richmond and Central Virginia, a historic epicenter of America’s racialized history. In A People’s Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia they ...
The American Studies Now series refuses the distinction between politics and culture—focusing on historical cultures of power and protest on the one hand, or the political importance of cultural practices on the other. These short, timely books focus on the issues that matter today and ar...