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Donna Murch

Author of Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives

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Donna Jean Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

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Works by Donna Murch

Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives (2018) 48 copies

Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (2010) 42 copies

Racist Logic: Markets, Drugs, Sex (Boston Review / Forum) (2019) 6 copies

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False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2016) — Contributor — 61 copies

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Racial Capitalism in the Age of Trump (Boston Review… by Donna Murch

Systemic racism is everywhere. It affects everyone's lives. It especially affects in a profoundly advantageous way your life if your are white, most of the times without even noticing it, by being manifested as a standardised social habit.
In conjunction with capitalism, systemic racism has become a powerful tool for preserving the power of the few and for widening inequalities even more. It is used to disorient the lower economic and social classes by pointing towards a false and nonexistent foe.
The book focuses on issues related mainly to the USA's reality, nevertheless it offers food for thought for everyone.… (more)

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