Editor @BostonReview; Fellow-in-Residence, @HarvardEthics 2018-19. Went to Bluesky: @debchasman.bsky.social
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I have a new essay in @BostonReview, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition bostonreview.net/articles/hu…
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Now up at @BostonReview, a dispatch I wrote for the Winter issue, on my experience testifying in deportation cases under Trump 2.0. Including a surprising triumph for pharmaceutical reason! Link below
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An essay I wrote for @MagnumPhotos's Salih Basheer's new book of photos and images, The Return, has now been published by @BostonReview, with great edits from @DebChasman and Cameron Avery.
It's about exile from #Sudan, and whether return is possible.
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“It is much easier to imagine the end of apartheid than it is to imagine the end of settler colonialism.” A searing essay on #SouthAfrica’s unfinished liberation struggle that ties the land question to the body. By @PanasheChig @BostonReview
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In my new @BostonReview essay, “The Land Question,” I contend that “within the liberal international order, it is ‘reasonable’ and ‘workable’ to struggle to end apartheid and racial segregation, while it is ‘unreasonable’ and ‘unworkable’ to struggle to end settler colonialism and indigenous land dispossession.” 'Apartheid' is overrepresented in global left discourse and historiography, dangerously obscuring more foundational questions of structural dispossession. In this critique of liberalism's apartheid paradigm informed by South Africa's Black Consciousness-Pan Africanist Tradition (the Azanian Tradition), I map out the historical geopolitics of the land question and indigenous sovereignty across the world.
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What's the opposite of MAHA? Mamadani. Here are some thoughts in the Boston Review on the fight for food as a public good. bostonreview.net/articles/ma…
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Whatever power truth-telling might have had against fascism has been radically diminished. There is ample scholarship proving that immigrants do not take jobs and that war in Gaza doesn’t make Jews safe. Robin Kelley and others on what resistance requires: bostonreview.net/forum/the-r…
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"Palestinians have been construed as an inconvenient and breakable thorn in Israel’s side...Instead of being allowed to articulate their own...liberation, Said explains, 'Palestinians are expected to participate in the dismantling of their own history.'" bit.ly/4mc72zt
"Western states will increasingly deviate toward a fake rules-based order rather than a law-centered order, while the countries in the Global South will take up the banner of international law." @tparsi talks with Rajan Menon: bostonreview.net/articles/wh…
On murdered Palestinian journalists: "When al-Sharif began crying that heartbreaking day in front of al-Shifa Hospital, you could hear the people around him comforting and encouraging him: 'Continue! Continue! You’re our voice.'" bostonreview.net/articles/is…
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Can't believe timing of publication of my essay regarding the tendency to blame Palestinians for the Democrats' stunning defeat. Saving the U.S. from Trump means saving the world from the U.S.
cc @rolandsmartin
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On Lula's spectacular achievement -- creating a winning party built on social movements and delivering widely-distributed gains for workers. bostonreview.net/articles/lu…
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"A young man burning alive in his makeshift hospital bed singed the unspeakable into world memory—a short memory, a hyperactive memory with attention-deficit, a deliberately porous memory without industrial chronicity behind it..." 🔥 @FadyJoudah lithub.com/a-glass-of-water-…
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Cori Bush's defeat comes nearly ten years after the Ferguson uprising. Here, @BlakeStrode1 considers the movement's brilliance—and its struggles.
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I read this as a different type of party.
(ala “collective joy”)
Which, honestly— title still works.
We need more civic celebration and democratic effervescence.
Our new issue, WE NEED MORE PARTIES, traces the root of our democratic dysfunction to our two-party system.
@leedrutman leads a forum with @dsallentess @MauriceWFP @DSchrantz @daschloz @sam_rosenfeld @tabathaabuelhaj @dbhargava68 @cerin @g_tudor & others
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"There are many authors, of course, who have written about the people and problems of Appalachia who don’t have eugenicists for pen-pals and mentors." @elizabethcatte on J.D. Vance: bostonreview.net/articles/el…
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“Four years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, we published an essay that changed the world.”
A message from our publisher and coeditor-in-chief:
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Biden's announcement will protect some families from a draconian Clinton-era immigration law. I wrote about its ongoing bureaucratic violence here: nymag.com/intelligencer/2021…
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What if tenants can wield a new kind of power? Alongside farmworkers, ratepayers, trade unionists? Could that be a team to take on fossil capital, real estate capital, and all that hurts us?
In convo w @OlufemiOTaiwo and others I admire in @BostonReview: bostonreview.net/forum_respo…
