By Bernard E. Harcourt In their introduction to the classic collection of Critical Race Theory writings, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, Kendall Thomas and his colleagues conclude—this is actually the last sentence of their introduction:… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I would be sitting in a special locked isolation cell, sometimes even with the lock welded shut, and there would be no one to talk to – just the sound of screaming voices. And because there… Continue Reading
Episode 4: George Jackson and Revolutionary Prison Writings with Paul Redd Please join us here on SoundCloud for the full conversation with Paul Redd: https://soundcloud.com/user-832065376/harcourt-podcast-4-paul-redd-draft-v2-21422-338-pm Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-4-george-jackson-and-revolutionary-prison/id1472428475?i=1000551097978 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3nRPkH0GSnZ8M22bdLtp5e
By Bernard E. Harcourt I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels, and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. For the first four years I studied nothing but economics and military ideas. I met black guerrillas […] We… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I turned my cell into a university, a hall of debate, a law school. Reading was my salvation…. I first gravitated to books and authors that dealt with politics and race—George Jackson, Frantz Fanon,… Continue Reading
By Kendall Thomas At Revolution 6/13, I would like to explore how our readings for the seminar help us understand how the task of critical race theory is to develop a theory of racial power without resort to, that is not… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In the wake of the police protests that erupted in the Spring of 2020 following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others—possibly the largest protests in American history—the rightwing took aim at… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Practices always have a meaning, and meanings organize practice and produce real effects. — Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger (2017) The next social revolution in America, then, must involve the utter abolition of racial prejudice… Continue Reading
THEORIE CRITIQUE ET PRAXIS AU XXIe SIECLE Prof. Bernard E. Harcourt Columbia/EHESS Précis Comment repenser la théorie critique et la praxis critique au XXIe siècle ? Nietzsche, Marx, Freud nous avaient proposé des pistes fécondes au XIXe siècle. Adorno, Arendt, Beauvoir, Butler, Deleuze, Foucault, Said, Sartre,… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Reading Rosa Luxemburg through the lens of the ongoing Columbia graduate student workers’ strike, #CUonStrike, raises many questions about the ways in which the act of striking and protesting can transform the lives and self-understandings of… Continue Reading