Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• Sociologists for Justice
• Ferguson and America's Hatred of Democracy
• Reparations for Ferguson
•  “Private Immigrant Prison”
• The Hunger Crisis in US universities
• To Tenured Faculty, In Support of Steven Salaita
• Queer Black Studies Now
•  Big Data and the‘Physics’ of Social Harmony

ReclaimUC:

• Video: tear gas attack at UC Berkeley (1969)
• The hunger crisis in America's universities
• L.A. Unified school police to stop citing students for minor offenses
• Teaching is not a business
• At Michael Brown's former high school
• Ferguson's schools are just as troubling as its police force
• Teaching about Ferguson
• Not teaching about Ferguson
• Chronicle of a riot foretold (2010)
• Creating outside agitators (2010)
• The invention of the "outside agitator" in three graphs
• Struggling against white supremacy: defiant dispatches from Ferguson and beyond
• Linking violence in solidarity: Ferguson, Gaza, and the US state
• Darren Wilson's fans in their own words
• In defense of looting
• When will they shoot?
• Police body cameras don't address the real problem: police
• Block the boat!
• "Warrior students": how Israeli universities are supporting war crimes in Gaza
• "[A] lesson plan that encourages students to be 'Jewish fighters' like the biblical Joshua"

Jacqui Shine:

• [ARCHIVE, 1951] We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of The United States Government Against the Negro People (1951)
• Mariame Kaba on "We Charge Genocide" and wechargegenocide.org/#CHICopWatch
• The families of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin at the United Nations
• "As examples of troubling racial policies in the U.S., UN officials cited “Stand Your Ground” laws, the use of force against immigrants, FBI racial profiling, and high rates of gun violence with disparate impacts on minorities."
• "And in terms of how that despotism manifests itself visually, we might try to deconstruct what I call settler narratives, and by that I mean films like Erin Brockovich, which was really about how PG&E messed over brown and black people, but whose mise en scene is reinscribed, at the level of the bodily code, with a whole plethora of Jacksonian white people."
• "The Italicized Life of Frank B. Wilderson, III"
• "Letter from Trinidad: Beyoncé Is Gold"
• Buried lede here, I promise.
• "Anatomy of a Serial Plagiarist"
• "They Called Him Sergeant Stubby"
• List of individual dogs

Kitabet:

• “American racism has many moving parts, and has had enough centuries in which to evolve an impressive camouflage.” 
• Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
• Israel’s Use of Law and Warnings in Gaza
• Powers of Quarantine
• “Freedom dreams are sticky investments, promiscuous attachments, Velcro projectiles.”
• The Case of the Arabic Noirs
• Itemizing Atrocity
• The Day the Settlers Left: Gaza During "Disengagement"
• “Loha Singh, a 28-year-old Robin Hood-like figure who steals electricity from rich customers and neighbourhoods for poorer folk”
• The Role of Host Communities in North Lebanon
• A Day With Argentina’s "Street Engineers"
• What Does it Mean to Compare Ferguson to Iraq?
• Linking Violence in Solidarity: Ferguson, Gaza, and the US State
• “These, then, were the poor people buried in Cross Bones.”
• Why Every Pakistani Politician Needs a Shipping Container
• The Shoemakers of Gedikpa?a

Jacob Remes:

• Michael B. Katz (1939-2014)
• Leonard Fein (1934-2014) (an example: "We Don't Hunt")
• Palestinians Live what Israelis Fear
• Steven Salaita and the danger of academic engagement
• The moral economy of the Ferguson crowd in the twenty-first century
• The Ferguson Challenge to Libertarians
• The political and regulatory choices that led to Lac Mégantic
• "What is the union without militant action, and what is militant action without the union to sharpen and direct it?"

Bint Battuta:

• Fraxinetum: An Islamic Frontier State in Provence
• Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
• Poland's Lipka Tatars
• The Cypriot Maronite community
• Iran’s first Muslims & the Persian past
• Qu’est-ce qu’un Turc ? (Égypte, Syrie, XVIe siècle)
• The colonial logic of Israeli violence
• Gendering Israel's War on Gaza
• Sharif Kanaana on Palestinian folklore & identity
• Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
• Learning an Ottoman Language (or Two)
• The Case of the Arabic Noirs
• The history of LA's palm trees
• The role of the shipping container in Pakistani politics
• Introduction to Laleh Khalili's Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
• The history of "impartiality" at the BBC
• How Pakistan's television archives were lost
• Archive of Indian Music
• Can an Englishman become truly Indian?
• A tribute to U.R. Ananthamurthy
• The history of Mangalore tiles

/kaw·re?d?/:

• The New Empire within Britain [Rushdie, 1982]
• The Not-So-Secret Serum
• "Compromised mothering is rarely recognized as a condition of 'living under siege' within violent structures”
• Policing Slaves Since The 1600’s: White supremacy, slavery, and modern us police departments
• Lives less liveable: Judith Butler on expanding queer solidarity beyond sexuality
• Linking Violence In Solidarity: Ferguson, Gaza, and the US State
• Let's talk about category structure and oppression
• ‘Normal birth’ and ‘breast is best’: the neoliberalisation of reproduction
• Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy [view for free in August]
• The Limits of Whiteness, Iranian-Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

Kerim Friedman:

• Rep. Dingell calls out colleagues who supported ALS funding cuts for hypocritical ice bucketing
• What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings
• The Forgotten Souls: Where Are Taiwanese Soldiers in History?
• Amis youth stop foreign performers
• The Newark Riots
• Krugman Should Be More Skeptical About the New Cold War
• Ferguson and the Modern Debtor’s Prison
• #ALSIceBucketChallenge: Templatized Self-Expression & Costless Communitas
• Why Is 'Colonel' Spelled That Way?
• No. Michael Brown Couldn’t Have Been Obama’s Son