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Dan Berger

Dan Berger is an associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era and Rethinking the American Prison Movement, among other books. Follow him on Twitter: @dnbrgr.

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from Dan Berger
Donald Trump grimaces while displaying his executive order
News Analysis
Prisons & Policing

The GOP’s Police Reforms Won’t Do It. We Need to Defund the Police.

The GOP police reform bill seems more concerned with stopping the protests than stopping the abuses that sparked them.
by
Dan Berger,
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June 17, 2020
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Sen. Kamala Harris speaks during the Democratic Presidential Committee summer meeting
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

Don’t Be Fooled — Kamala Harris’s “Criminal Justice” Plan Is Not Progressive

Harris’s plan is about brand management, not political vision.
by
Dan Berger,
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September 10, 2019
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White barbed wire creeping toward white prisoner
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

Rise in White Prisoners Doesn’t Change Innate Racism of Prisons

There is a powerful political constituency to mobilize against the cruelties of the U.S. carceral state.
by
Dan Berger,
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April 28, 2019
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Radical critics of the prison system have a difficult but familiar task in the coming year.
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

“Prison Reform” Is Not Enough. In 2019, Let’s Fight for Decarceration.

Radical critics of the prison system have a difficult but familiar task in the coming year.
by
Dan Berger,
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January 2, 2019
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President Trump makes an announcement regarding the "First Step Act" prison reform bill at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2018.
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

What the Latest Bipartisan Prison Reform Gets Wrong and Why It Matters

The bill currently being put forward is both weak and dangerous.
by
Dan Berger,
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November 16, 2018
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Welfare and Imprisonment: How “Get Tough” Politics Have Excluded People From Society

Mass incarceration and welfare cuts have the same origin: the US’s deadly get-tough politics.
by
Dan Berger,
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June 17, 2017
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Op-Ed

Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

These seven maxims of power culled from the Black radical tradition can help guide the fight against Trumpism.
by
Dan Berger,
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February 27, 2017
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Op-Ed

A Brief History of the “War on Cops”: The False Allegation That Enables Police Violence

The war on cops does not exist, but the idea has been used to justify increasing police violence.
by
Dan Berger,
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July 21, 2016
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Freedom From Violence: Lessons From Black Prisoner Organizing

As prison organizing demonstrates, the pursuit of freedom from violence is rooted in care and creativity.
by
Dan Berger,
The University of North Carolina Press
May 31, 2016
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Reverberations of Underground Activism

Diana Block’s novel “Clandestine Occupations” is a nuanced and intimate portrayal of radical activism’s far-reaching consequences.
by
Dan Berger,
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October 14, 2015
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