Tag Archives: Black radical tradition

This week, Bella Bravo speaks with Jarrod Shanahan, a writer, activist, and professor of Criminal Justice based in Chicago. Shanahan has been on previous episodes, discussing mass incarceration and the George Floyd rebellion. We are speaking today about his new book Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage. Captives recounts the last seventy years of New York politics …

Today’s episode looks at social reproduction on the margins of the state – where there is a vitalizing drive to create life beyond, against, and outside of imposing limitations, and a persistence of radical sociality — a fundamental challenge to the normalized organization of life around degradation and exploitation. This vitalizing drive is what our guest today, Laura Harris, calls …