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Dan Berger

Other affiliations: University of Michigan
Bio: Dan Berger is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prison & Politics. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 15 publications receiving 285 citations. Previous affiliations of Dan Berger include University of Michigan.

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TL;DR: This article used fixed effects models to estimate differences in contemporaneous and downstream academic outcomes for students who take courses virtually and face-to-face, both for initial attempts and subsequent attempts.
Abstract: This article uses fixed effects models to estimate differences in contemporaneous and downstream academic outcomes for students who take courses virtually and face-to-face—both for initial attempts...

99 citations

01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: The authors argued that prisoners elucidated a nationalist philosophy of racial formation that saw racism as a site of confinement but racial identity as a vehicle for emancipation, arguing that prisoners used spectacular confrontation to dramatize their conditions of confinement as epitomizing American inequality.
Abstract: This dissertation analyzes black and Puerto Rican prison protest in the 1970s. I argue that prisoners elucidated a nationalist philosophy of racial formation that saw racism as a site of confinement but racial identity as a vehicle for emancipation. Trying to force the country to see its sites of punishment as discriminatory locations of repression, prisoners used spectacular confrontation to dramatize their conditions of confinement as epitomizing American inequality. I investigate this radicalism as an effort to secure visibility, understood here as a metric of collective consciousness. In documenting the ways prisoners were symbols and spokespeople of 1970s racial protest, this dissertation argues that the prison served as metaphor and metonym in the process of racial formation. A concept and an institution, the prison was embodied in protest, hidden in punishment, represented in media, and known in ideas. This dissertation examines the multifaceted mechanisms by which social movements attempt to effect change through creating new ways of knowing. I examine prison visibility through two extended case studies. First, I study a coterie of radical black prisoners centered in California and revolving around militant prisoner author George Jackson. Through appeals to revolutionary action as racial authenticity, this grouping—which included Angela Davis, Ruchell Magee, and the San Quentin 6, as well as the Black Panther Party and others—described black prisoners as slaves rebelling against the confinement of American society writ large. The second case study addresses the successful decade-long campaign to free five Puerto Rican Nationalists imprisoned for spectacular attacks on U.S. authority in the 1950s. Understanding colonialism as a prison, U.S.based Puerto Rican nationalists in the 1970s (including the Young Lords, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional and others) defined the freedom of these prisoners as a necessary step toward national independence. Through strategies of visibility, black and Puerto Rican prison radicals used collective memory to overcome the spatial barriers of confinement. Such memories were recalled through a wide range of tactics, from bombs to bombast, from alternative media to community organizing, as prison radicals fought to control the terms of their visibility. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group Communication First Advisor Barbie Zelizer Second Advisor John Jackson This dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/250 Third Advisor Michael Delli Carpini

55 citations

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14 Nov 2014
TL;DR: For instance, the authors in this paper offer a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism and the origins of mass incarceration in the U.S. during the civil rights era.
Abstract: captive nation black prison organizing in the civil captive nation black prison organizing in the civil rights era justice power and politics dan berger on amazon com free shipping on qualifying offers in this pathbreaking book dan berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, captive nation black prison organizing in the civil captive nation black prison organizing in the civil rights era justice power and politics kindle edition by dan berger download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading captive nation black prison organizing in the civil rights era justice power and politics, captive nation the university of north carolina press throughout the civil rights era black activists thrust the prison into public view turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in the united states black prisoners became global political icons at a time when notions of race and nation were in flux, review captive nation black prison organizing in the it is a deeply engaged approach that renders dan berger s captive nation black prison organizing in the civil rights era a unique contribution to the ever growing body of prison literature emanating from the u s today, captive nation black prison organizing in the civil captive nation black prison organizing in the civil rights era justice power and politics christianity and black oppression duppy know who fe frighten cold war civil rights race and the image of american democracy politics and society in modern america consequences of oppression hell on earth, captive nation black prison organizing in the civil in this pathbreaking book dan berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism the prison system and the origins of mass incarceration throughout the civil rights era black activists thrust the prison into public view turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in the united states

42 citations

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24 Sep 2010
TL;DR: The Hidden 1970s as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays by emerging scholars and scholar-activists that offer views of the recent past that should reshape the consensus about the 1970s to focus on activism, organizing, and violence from above and below.
Abstract: "For readers interested in Red Power, Brown Power, women's liberation, peace movements, queer politics, and the white left, this important volume offers new perspectives and information that is not available elsewhere. The essays, by a mix of emerging scholars and scholar-activists, offer views of the recent past that should reshape the consensus about the 1970s to focus on activism, organizing, and violence from above and below." -Felicia Kornbluh, author of The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America "Important and insightful, The Hidden 1970s boldly reimagines a decade that remains understudied and misunderstood." -Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of profound societal change. Indeed, several iconic events of "the sixties" occurred in the ten years that followed. The Hidden 1970s explores the distinctiveness of those years, a time when radicals tried to change the world as the world changed around them. This powerful collection is a compelling assessment of a wide variety of left-wing social movements during the period that many have described as dominated by conservatism or confusion. Contributors examine critical and largely buried legacies of the 1970s. Their essays provide fascinating insight into the myriad ways that radical social movements shaped American political culture in the 1970s and how they continue to do so today. Dan Berger is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity and the coeditor of Letters from Young Activists.

37 citations

01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the potential for several prominent technological innovations to promote equality of educational opportunities, including intelligent tutoring, blended learning, and virtual schooling, and describe several prominent innovations.
Abstract: This chapter assesses the potential for several prominent technological innovations to promote equality of educational opportunities. We review the history of technological innovations in education and describe several prominent innovations, including intelligent tutoring, blended learning, and virtual schooling.

23 citations


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TL;DR: GARLAND, 2001, p. 2, the authors argues that a modernidade tardia, esse distintivo padrão de relações sociais, econômicas e culturais, trouxe consigo um conjunto de riscos, inseguranças, and problemas de controle social that deram uma configuração específica às nossas respostas ao crime, ao garantir os altos custos das
Abstract: Nos últimos trinta trinta anos, houve profundas mudanças na forma como compreendemos o crime e a justiça criminal. O crime tornou-se um evento simbólico, um verdadeiro teste para a ordem social e para as políticas governamentais, um desafio para a sociedade civil, para a democracia e para os direitos humanos. Segundo David Garland, professor da Faculdade de Direito da New York University, um dos principais autores no campo da Sociologia da Punição e com artigo publicado na Revista de Sociologia e Política , número 13, na modernidade tardia houve uma verdadeira obsessão securitária, direcionando as políticas criminais para um maior rigor em relação às penas e maior intolerância com o criminoso. Há trinta anos, nos EUA e na Inglaterra essa tendência era insuspeita. O livro mostra que os dois países compartilham intrigantes similaridades em suas práticas criminais, a despeito da divisão racial, das desigualdades econômicas e da letalidade violenta que marcam fortemente o cenário americano. Segundo David Garland, encontram-se nos dois países os “mesmos tipos de riscos e inseguranças, a mesma percepção a respeito dos problemas de um controle social não-efetivo, as mesmas críticas da justiça criminal tradicional, e as mesmas ansiedades recorrentes sobre mudança e ordem sociais”1 (GARLAND, 2001, p. 2). O argumento principal da obra é o seguinte: a modernidade tardia, esse distintivo padrão de relações sociais, econômicas e culturais, trouxe consigo um conjunto de riscos, inseguranças e problemas de controle social que deram uma configuração específica às nossas respostas ao crime, ao garantir os altos custos das políticas criminais, o grau máximo de duração das penas e a excessivas taxas de encarceramento.

2,183 citations

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01 Jun 1989
TL;DR: The meaning of Africa and of being African, what is and what is not African philosophy, and is philosophy part of Africanism are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism ? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. North America: Indiana U Press

1,338 citations

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01 Jan 2008
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512 citations