Excellent op-eds on context for #Minneapolis & #GeorgeFloyd by historians, including: @elizabhinton: bostonreview.net/race/elizabeth… @KeishaBlain: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0… @mfkantor: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0… @KeeangaYamahtta: nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opi…

"We as a nation still fail to reckon with the wisdom King prophetically offered toward the end of his life: that only 'social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention. There is no other answer.'"

"The Minneapolis Uprising in Context" If you read only one thing today, it should be this by @elizabhinton bostonreview.net/race/elizabeth… 🔥🔥🔥

.@ElizabethHinton on the #MinneapolisUprising in context: "A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence."

Read this from @elizabhinton.

Elizabeth Hinton on the #MinneapolisUprising in context: "A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence." bostonreview.net/race/elizabeth… @MichaelEDyson @TefPoe

"We as a nation still fail to reckon with the wisdom King prophetically offered toward the end of his life: that only 'social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention. There is no other answer.'" Great piece by @elizabhinton

This from @elizabhinton is fantastic.

"a proper understanding of sixties-era urban rebellion—and similar rebellions now—depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as a period of sustained political violence."

“we shd attempt to understand violent rebellion on its own terms, as a form of direct political action” @elizabhinton On its own terms. Such an important point, which runs against styles of thought so frequently deployed in so many of the human sciences

"However, a proper understanding of sixties-era urban rebellion—and similar rebellions now—depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as a period of sustained political violence." @elizabhinton @BostonReview