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I created a lot this year, much of it dealing with issues of money, labor politics, racism, big data, criminalization, and abolition. Here's a recap.
I co-organized, with @datasociety, and hosted a conversation with @kenyonfarrow, THE FACT OF BLACKNESS: COVID-19, Medical Data, and the Racial Design of Public Health.
Along with data, we talked about global anti-Blackness, clinical trials, and vaccines. https://datasociety.net/library/the-fact-of-blackness/
Along with data, we talked about global anti-Blackness, clinical trials, and vaccines. https://datasociety.net/library/the-fact-of-blackness/
In my essay for @jacobinmag, "Protesters’ Demands in Response to Police Brutality Have Come a Long Way Since the 1992 LA Rebellion," I drew from my extensive research on the 1992 LA Rebellion and "race relations" work among progressives. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/police-brutality-protests-demands-1992-defund
In my @newinquiry essay, "Abolition is not a suburb," I critically examined what has become a talking point among some leftists and progressives for abolition, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. https://thenewinquiry.com/abolition-is-not-a-suburb/
In my article for @abusablepast, "Military Service as Liberal Policing: A Brief Racial History of Project 100,000," I wrote about the role of liberal sociology in shaping military and labor policies to control social rebellions and Black protest. https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/military-service-as-liberal-policing-a-brief-racial-history-of-project-100000/
I wrote this @DataProgress report, "Alternative Data and the Future of Credit Scoring," to examine what some are proposing as a "solution" to the racial and gender wealth gap and related policy proposals. https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/alternative-data-and-the-future-of-credit-scoring
Mary Pattillo and I co-authored "Mary Pattillo’s Sociology of the Black Middle Class," examining her experiences in the academy and her scholarship. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0896920520928015?journalCode=crsb
My article in Sociological Forum, "On Teaching as Activism" critically explores the difference between showing up for our jobs and experiencing racist treatment at work versus engaging in political activism. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/socf.12654
I researched and wrote 6 data stories for @Kaepernick7's #AbolitionForThePeople.
My #AbolitionForThePeople data story, "'They See Us as a Threat': Schools as Carceral Spaces."
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHbZH2CA3zL/?fbclid=IwAR1uyfOx3lLAcxLH-RgAQF7olqqKSIqiknXnvjFbITj1bzvj1E4j7y2F6Hw
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHbZH2CA3zL/?fbclid=IwAR1uyfOx3lLAcxLH-RgAQF7olqqKSIqiknXnvjFbITj1bzvj1E4j7y2F6Hw
My #AbolitionForThePeople data story, " #DefundThePolice and #DefundICE as Critical Steps toward Abolition"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1XfgVjVTq/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1XfgVjVTq/
My #AbolitionForThePeople data story, "Free. Them. All. The Millions Suffering from Mass Incarceration include Loved Ones on the Outside."
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIWoJD5IRNZ/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIWoJD5IRNZ/
My #AbolitionForThePeople data story, "'Reforms do not make the criminal legal system more just': How reforms maintain the prison industrial complex."
https://www.instagram.com/p/CICQdECDwnS/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CICQdECDwnS/
My #AbolitionForThePeople data story, "The Truth about Officer Friendly: Copaganda versus Reality."
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHjB4vchGKd/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHjB4vchGKd/
My #AbolitionForThePeople data story, "To Abolish Mass Incarceration, We Must Abolish the Carceral State. To Abolish the Carceral State, We Must Abolish Anti-Blackness."
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHx4vCYDzuq/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHx4vCYDzuq/
I co-organized, with @haymarketbooks, and hosted #AsiansForAbolition. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/195-asians-for-abolition
I co-organized, with @haymarketbooks, and hosted #PublicMoneyRacialJustice.
And I edited a book of @prisonculture's writings, presentations, and interviews, We Do This 'Til We Free Us, which will be published by @haymarketbooks on W.E.B. Du Bois's birthday, February 23, 2021. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us
