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Black Strike at UW Madison 1969

June 12, 2018 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

In February of 1969, Black students and their White allies at the University of Wisconsin Madison called a strike and blocked entrances to campus buildings to back up their demands. I agreed to be part of a panel June 16 on the Black Student Strike of 1969 at UW Madison.

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American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race

June 1, 2018 Pamela Oliver Book Reviews, Racial issues, US history

Angel Adams Parham’s book American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (Oxford, 2017, available in hardcover and as an ebook from many vendors) is an exciting work that makes a novel and important contribution to our understanding of race in the US. The “racial palimpsest” idea is that

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

February 18, 2018 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Brooklyn College’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science Jeanne Theoharis is a readable and fascinating account of the life of Rosa Parks that won many awards when it was punished in 2013. Here’s my “take” on the story, based on the book. I

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When Republicans Opposed the Free Speech of David Duke

February 17, 2018 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Racial issues, Social Movements, US history, White Nationalists

In 1996, the College Republicans thought it was an unfair attack on their opposition to affirmative action to associate it with a known White racist.

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New working paper on White and Black urban and rural imprisonment rates

January 18, 2018 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

I’ve just posted my working paper to SocArXiv  that shows that high White rural imprisonment rates and rises in imprisonment rates in county groups are linked to poverty and low education in rural areas. The paper gathers up the graphs and analysis from my previous post and also provides regression

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Drug Homicide Prosecutions Make Overdose Problems Worse

December 8, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Drug War, Prosecution

Wisconsin leads the nation in filing homicide charges when someone dies from an overdose of an illegal drug, according to the Drug Policy Alliance, whose researchers found 882 news mentions of drug homicide prosecutions in Wisconsin 2011-16.  (Second highest was Ohio with 577; Illinois had 486 and Minnesota 433.)  Although

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Racial Disparities in Plea Bargaining in Dane County 2000-2006

November 26, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Plea bargaining, Wisconsin

A forthcoming research article,  (and now published)   by Carlos Berdejó a professor of Law at Loyola of Los Angeles who also has a PhD in economics, has documented racial disparities in the plea bargaining process in Dane County, Wisconsin (home of the University of Wisconsin – Madison) in the years 2000-2006.

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For Closing the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility

November 24, 2017 Pamela Oliver Community supervision, Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Revocations, Wisconsin

Activists in Wisconsin’s Close MSDF coalition  are focusing attention on the inhumane conditions in the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) and the problem of crimeless revocations that send people there.  The MSDF was built in 2001 to house people temporarily who had been accused of violating the terms of their

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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panthers

October 19, 2017 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

NOTE: See Josh Bloom’s comments. Other comments are welcome. They are moderated to avoid spam and trolls, but serious engagement with the issues is welcomed. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panthers, by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., has received wide praise for its

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Student backgrounds

September 30, 2017 Pamela Oliver Talking and teaching about race

In a pre-class survey, I asked my students questions about their own racial/ethnic backgrounds and the types of places they have lived in.  Race first, where I grouped the “mixed” race answers for people who combined White with Latinx or Black into the minority group for this table. This course

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