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Stuart Schrader
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Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (Basic Books, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social‬, 2019)
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Legacies of the Panthers:
Beyoncé, “Formation” (US, 2016 Super Bowl)
youtu.be/3hZFz3bHUAg?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Panther Analogs Across Borders:
Bonus: Jo Amar “לשכת עבודה” (IS, 1960)
youtu.be/NVzEmGq_wC8?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Panther Analogs Across Borders:
Soul Messengers “Savior in the East” (IS, 1975)
youtu.be/6Dy_nUMruWw?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Prisons:
Willie & West “Attica Massacre” (GA, 1972)
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April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Repression:
The Lumpen “Free Bobby Now” (CA, 1970)
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April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Rainbow Coalitions:
The Ghetto Brothers, “Viva Puerto Rico Libre” (NY, 1972)
youtu.be/c0SaAJzm4oo?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Women, Gender Liberation, and the Black Panther Party:
Elaine Brown, “The End of Silence” (CA, 1969)
youtu.be/oC-JbT9ic7g?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Survival Programs:
The Lumpen, “No More” (CA, 1970)
youtu.be/uVo29ejD7jA?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Local Histories of the Panthers:
Rodriguez, “This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues” (MI, 1970)
youtu.be/lJyawB1E78M?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Internationalism:
Boutaiba Sghir, “Malgre Tout” (Algeria, 1970[?])
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April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The American Politics of Global Decolonization:
Har-You Percussion Group, “Welcome to the Party” (NY, 1968)
youtu.be/pZpgbZg3Nz4?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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What Was 1968? What Was the Black Panther Party?:
Natural Four, “Message from a Black Man” (CA, 1970)
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April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Introduction:
Sir Collins & the Black Diamonds “Black Panther” (UK, 1969) youtu.be/9YLT0_ij7hg?...
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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My pic of it went super viral in June 2020
April 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The message from Baltimore, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention odyssey began
Billboard with giant white letters on black background that say Abolish ICE
April 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A dozen Johns Hopkins students have had their visas revoked, for unspecified reasons. This confirms rumors swirling around campus yesterday. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
"Approximately a dozen" international students at the Johns Hopkins University had their visas to study in the United States revoked, university officials said in a statement Tuesday morning, joining schools across the country that have reported students being given little warning that their visas are suddenly invalid. "We have received no information about the specific basis for the revocations, and we have no indication that the revocations are associated with free expression activities on campus," said a
April 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Was great to be in the DC streets (and on the grass) today with thousands of folks protesting against fascism and for liberation in Palestine
Capitol with protesters in front of it Dog with Dogs Against Doge sign
April 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Truly. For ex, last week’s seminar:
Table with cartons containing the Black Panther Party newspaper
March 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Also, I had to cut some notes, in case you're interested.
February 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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In the review, I suggest that this book, which is about how police in New Orleans adopted the functions of upholding white supremacy through violence, exemplifies some of what Weber was talking about with the claim to the monopoly on legitimate violence.
Bluecoated Terror is a book about state-formation that does not announce itself as such. Just before the period this book analyzes, but thousands of miles from Louisiana, Max Weber outlined what made a state. His useful, but also bedeviling, definition became canonical: “a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.” Most who study the history of the carceral state focus on the achieved monopoly of legitimate use of force. But Weber’s definition includes a methodological prompt and challenge by conjoining the aside “(successfully)” and the verb “claims.” Weber thus invites scholars to investigate a monumental “how” question: how does a state make a claim to monopolize violence legitimately? This raises further questions. If the state pre-exists this monopolization, does the claiming fundamentally transform it? How does the monopolization process unfold? The approach that historians might take to answer these questions is necessarily processual. The monopoly claims–making process unfolds over time, in a delimited space. Bluecoated Terror admirably reveals what this process looked like: how lynch law enforced by “self-appointed white sentinels” became law and order enforced by white police officers (2). It also prompts a question we might turn back on Weber about the human community. What is legitimacy in a human community cleaved by the color line? Adler’s book is about the origins of racial disparities in the U.S. system of criminal punishment found in the brutality of Southern police between World War I and World War II. Adler argues that racist violence “became baked into the core operation of law enforcement and criminal justice” (2). He focuses on the transformation of white-on-Black violence from vigilante-driven to police-dominated primarily in New Orleans, while noting that similar processes occurred in Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, and other urban areas of the Jim Crow…
February 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I have a new review of the excellent and horrifying book Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality by Jeffrey S. Adler (published by
@ucpress.bsky.social), out today in Journal of Social History.
Blue cover of Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality
February 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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They have names.
February 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I'm excited to announce a new 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins to advance research in historical & contemporary intersections of empire, migration, & racial hierarchy and help support our new major Critical Diaspora Studies. Pls share! apply.interfolio.com/162692
black on white circular logo for Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism
January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Baltimore! Ta-Nehisi Coates will be in convo with Nathan Connolly & Sara Rahnama at Morgan State on Tues 2/11, at 7pm, sponsored by Morgan’s Program for the Study of the Middle East & N Africa and JHU’s Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, & Colonialism. Pls join us!
Ta-Nehisi Coates depicted against blurry background with name in white: Black man with blue sports coat and collared shirt
January 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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been sayin
Virginia. This was the moment when the last hot flashes of the Cold War in Central America were turning to embers. The wrap-up of wars tend to produce surpluses seeking opportunities for reinvestment. The counterinsurgency tactics applied in the recalcitrant Guatemalan highlands would be urbanized, brought home, now as a new investment in a flagging war on drugs launched by a three-way coalition of white Southern Democrats, Black Northern Democrats, and white Republicans.
December 5, 2024 at 3:40 PM