The widespread protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd are continuing without any end in sight, despite curfew orders. Radical scholar Jordan Camp places the upheaval that’s taking place within the larger history of urban rebellions in the United States, from Watts in 1965, Detroit in 1967, Los Angeles in 1992, Ferguson in 2014, and Baltimore in 2015.

Resources:

Jordan T. Camp, Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State, 2016

Jordan T. Camp and Jennifer Greenburg, “Counterinsurgency Reexamined: Racism, Capitalism, and US Military Doctrine,” Antipode, 2020

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