Below is a selection of my published writings that can be found online. For a more complete list, please see my CV.
Journal Articles
“Organized Inside and Out: The Angola Special Civics Project and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration” in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society15:3 (2013), 199-217.
Popular Publications
“Louisiana’s Turn to Mass Incarceration: The Making of a Carceral State” in the American Association of Geographers Newsletter. Posted February 1, 2018.
“Prisoners Rights’ Roundtable: Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3” in Process: A Blog for American History. Posted September 2016.
“Alton Sterling and Police Impunity in Louisiana” Verso Blog. Posted July 11, 2016.
“Reflections on the Ten Year Aftermath of the Federal Flood” in Justice Roars. Posted August 28, 2015.
“Writing Across the Walls: Prisoner Journalism for Freedom” in The Abolitionist, Fall 2013
“Preparing for Disaster from New Orleans to New York” in The Oyster Knife. Posted November 4, 2012.
“Reflections on Organizing for Collective Liberation at Occupy NOLA” in Monthly Review online. Posted October 19 2011.
Book Reviews
Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans by Matt Sakakeeny in Southern Spaces. Posted online February 20, 2015.
We Shall Not be Moved by Tom Wooten in Shelterforce: The Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development. Posted online November 1, 2012.
Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland by Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair, eds. in The Indypendent, October 27, 2008.
Thinking About Freedom: Some Reflections on Materializing Abolition Democracy
My blog for ongoing reflections on my thinking on timely social issues related to prisons, policing, racial capitalism, grassroots organizing, and Louisiana.
