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Asst. Prof. of History . Author, Stranger Danger (). Writing a book about Ryan White and AIDS (). He/him.
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Iowa City friends, take note!
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Iowa union members and labor activists, @labornotes is hosting a Troublemakers School in Iowa City on Saturday, April 22, 2023. For more information and to register go here: labornotes.org/events/2023/io
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BRUTAL CAMPAIGN: How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics by Robert L. Fleegler is on sale April 2023 ⬇️
uncpress.org/book/978146967
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New Republic review of Malcolm Harris’s new book on Palo Alto:
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Urban History Panel Search: Looking for a fourth presenter for a panel on race and inequality in 20th century American urban parks, leisure and recreational spaces for the Urban History Association meeting in Pittsburgh. DM if are interested. #uha2023
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Here’s discussing the challenges the Reverend Jesse Jackson faced in his 1988 presidential campaign. Sanders would endorse Jackson a few months later.
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JK—The Dig is the real deal.
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Had no idea that Don Henley was involved in the Gary Hart scandal. “Give us dirty laundry.”
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“Waco Rising” by Kevin Cook poses vital and urgent questions about state power and the role of violence and warmaking in the contemporary United States, writes .
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“Every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.”
Colin Powell deceiving the Security Council about Iraq, 20 years ago today
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Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke, writes.
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Very weird feeling as this second book project is starting to actually feel like a book. Got a few more chapters to draft (plus an intro and epilogue). But is any of it any good?
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Kevin Cook’s book, “Waco Rising,” transports readers from the Davidians’ early days to the standoff that not only killed David Koresh and dozens of his followers but also radicalized countless right-wing extremists like Timothy McVeigh and Alex Jones.
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At public notice I talked to about the media's anti-trans bias. why does the NYT have umpty ump anti trans columnists, but no trans columnists?
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Book cover incoming!
I can't tell you how excited I am to have a book in my hands that looks like this. Coming Fall 2023 from !
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If Waco did, in fact, help set the stage for January 6 or November’s massacre at Club Q in Colorado Springs, how can we transform this knowledge into a usable past that might help curb violence in all its forms?
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Apparently Huey’s father passed away recently at the ripe old age of fourteen. RIP Pascavale Smarty.
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The physical, psychic, and sexual violence at Mount Carmel fit seamlessly with the Davidians’ ambient sense of apocalyptic doom, obsession with firearms, and leeriness of the federal government, writes.
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the five words every woman wants to hear (eric foner in teen vogue)
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As federal agents laid siege to the Mount Carmel compound in Waco, Branch Davidians hung a bedsheet from a window that read, “RODNEY KING WE UNDERSTAND.”
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David Koresh’s five-year stint as head of the Branch Davidians was productive—and unfathomably tumultuous.
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My new book THE MOVIES OF RACIAL CHILDHOODS is officially in production with !
I write about fiction by Lee Isaac Chung, Ryan Murphy, Auraeus Solito, Andrew Ahn, Diane Paragas, Alice Wu and more.
Forthcoming in Spring 2024 and available everywhere books are sold!
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It is no surprise that right-wing conspiracists and militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry, writes.
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“Waco Rising” meticulously catalogs the misdeeds and missteps that precipitated the carnage of the February 1993 raid on the Branch Davidians’ Mount Carmel compound, writes.
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.: “By articulating a broader critique of state power, one that folds in Waco, we can take away one of the right’s most powerful claims. Only then can we confront the violence that produced Waco and the violence that Waco has produced.”
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Today’s right-wing conspiracists and militias, Kevin Cook asserts in “Waco Rising,” almost universally view Waco as a radicalizing event.
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On one hand, the and are so fucking ill-equipped for this moment. But on the other, they’re doing exactly what they’re built to do by legitimizing existing sociopolitical conditions, regardless of how outrageous and dangerous they may become.
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Far from being the example of whiteness under siege that the right imagines, Waco fit into familiar patterns of state violence and repression, writes.
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When 76 ATF agents descended on Mount Carmel in late February 1993, they unknowingly initiated what would become the deadliest U.S. government action on American soil since the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee.
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For those who missed it yesterday, I reviewed Kevin Cook's fascinating new book about Waco and the roots of our paranoid present. The piece draws heavily on the phenomenal work of and .
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When 76 ATF agents descended on Mount Carmel in late February 1993, they unknowingly initiated what would become the deadliest U.S. government action on American soil since the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. newrepublic.com/article/170283
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Remember when you helped start the Iraq war? Kind of a jerk move!
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Here's the piece I discussed this morning on @Morning_Joe, latest in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
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David Koresh’s charisma, charm, and deep understanding of scripture all but guaranteed a devoted flock. That devotion manifested itself in different, sometimes horrifying ways, writes.
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Sarah Schulman on Nicole Eisenman in the 1990s - Artforum International
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While "Waco Rising" draws a clear link between the Mount Carmel siege and the right-wing movements of today, it doesn’t explore, in any meaningful depth, how whiteness has shaped the right’s responses to government “overreach.”
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