Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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Culture
‘Ballad of an American’: Composer Earl Robinson and working-class culture
April 27, 2022Best known for composing the music for songs like “The House I Live In,” “Joe Hill,” and “Black and White,” Earl Robinson’s music became a critical part of U.S. working-class culture in the 20th century.
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News
Cops don’t need more training
March 4, 2022A report published this week by the Chicago Office of the Inspector General reveals that police in that city disproportionately target Black people and subject them to force.
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Culture
On becoming police and prison abolitionists: But what about the murderers?
February 25, 2022While a reader may find certain aspects of her argument worthy of debate, the fundamental value of Purnell’s book and intellectual approach is one of openness.
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Culture
New book explores fear of Black consciousness—and who fears it
February 18, 2022Fear of Black Consciousness deserves to be carefully studied.
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U.S.
America’s racist prison society produces profits but not safety
February 17, 2022The mass incarceration society isn’t working. Nearly 7 million people are locked up in the U.S., yet crime carries on.
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U.S.
‘They are really killing me in here’—Michigan women’s prison under scrutiny
February 10, 2022The Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility has been described as a “special hell” with a culture of “rape punishment” against inmates.
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Politics
Michigan, mass incarceration, and the new surveillance society
February 1, 2022In a stage of capitalism where outsourcing and deindustrialization have devastated Michigan's manufacturing economy, small towns across the state have come to rely on a racist system of mass incarceration for their economic livelihood.
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Books
‘All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running’: A novel in review
September 29, 2021The idea of collective shaping of a clear vision of how the world is and how it ought to be is a central theme of Rodriques’s first novel All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running.
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