Authors & Thinkers
This author wrote The Walls Have Eyes
Who is Petra Molnar?
Petra Molnar describes the U.S.–Mexico region where rugged desert terrain, heat, and wildlife complicate robot operations
What is the Sonoran Desert?
In Loaded, Dunbar-Ortiz argues that U.S. gun culture is rooted in this.
What is settler colonialism?
Ava DuVernay directed this documentary about mass incarceration
What is 13th?
This 19th‑century framework, explored in Chapter 2 of A Condemnation of Blackness, linked what to policies that justified racial capitalism and shaped urban labor hierarchies in the United States.
What is scientific racism?
This lawyer gave the TED Talk We Need to Talk About Injustice.
Who is Bryan Stevenson?
Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines this as “the state-sanctioned production of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death
What is racial capitalism?
In The History of White People, Chapter 9 describes this “alien wave.”
What are Southern and Eastern European immigrants?
This podcast episode is titled “Cracked Windshield.”
What is Ear Hustle?
This government agency carried out raids discussed in the ACLU report.
What is ICE?
This scholar is featured in Geographies of Racial Capitalism
Who is Ruth Wilson Gilmore?
The stereotype linking crime directly to Blackness, explored by Khalil Muhammad.
What is racial criminalization?
In The Condemnation of Blackness, Chapter 1 focuses on this theme
What is “Saving the Nation”?
This scholar appeared on Bill Moyers to discuss racial history.
Who is Khalil Muhammad?
This Nevada rancher was involved in a standoff with the FBI.
Who is Cliven Bundy?
This historian wrote Not a Nation of Immigrants
Who is Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz?
The myth challenged in Not a Nation of Immigrants.
What is the idea that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants?
In The Walls Have Eyes, AI surveillance is described as doing this
What is “making the walls bleed”?
Bryan Stevenson’s TED Talk emphasizes that the opposite of poverty is this.
What is justice?
This policy targeted “degenerate families” with sterilization.
What is eugenics?
This historian authored The Condemnation of Blackness
Who is Khalil Gibran Muhammad?
The practice of denying housing loans to Black families based on neighborhood maps.
What is redlining?
In this section of An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz focuses on how his white stepfather never fully accepted him in his full Latino embodiment
What is the “Author’s Note” section?
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s film was produced by this foundation.
What is the Antipode Foundation?
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery but allowed forced labor as punishment for crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?