Seattle University School of Law
Prof. Dean Spade
Week 1
Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford, “A Subtle yet Restless Fire: Attacking Slavery from the Fens of the Great Dismal,” in Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South, 14-49. AK Press, 2015.
Maroon Comix: Origins and Destinies (ed. Saul Quincy). PM Press, 2018.
Listen: Youssef, Sharif. “The Great Dismal Swamp.” 99 Percent Invisible. August 8, 2017.
Watch: Vimeo, “LANDSCAPE OF POWER: Freedom and Slavery in the Great Dismal Swamp,“ video (free), 20m.
Week 2
Osterweil, Vicky. In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action, 1-69. 1st Edition. New York: Bold Type Books, 2020.
Week 3
Williams, Kristian. Our Enemies in Blue, 23-32, 42-49, 60-71, 121-173. Soft Skull Press, 2004.
Week 4
Gelderloos, Peter. How Nonviolence Protects the State, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7. 2nd Edition. The Anarchist Library, 2012.
Coronado, Rod. Flaming Arrows: A Compilation of Works by Rod Coronado. North Carolina: IEF Press, 2006. Coronado, Rod. “The High Price of Pacifism.”
Week 5
Balagoon, Kuwasi. A Soldier’s Story: Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist, 27-56, 57-67. Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2003.
Georgakas, Dan and Marvin Surkin. Detroit: I do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1998. “James Johnson: A Prologue,” 9-11, “Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets: STRESS,” Chapter 8, 151-173, “Mr. Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge of Recorder’s Court,” Chapter 9, 175-187.
Watch:
Vimeo, “Cointelpro 101,” video (free), 57m.
Week 6
William, Kristian. Our Enemies in Blue, 239-397. Soft Skull Press, 2004
Berger, Dan and Emily K. Hobson. Remaking Radicalism, 131-165. Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2020.
Optional:
Shakur, Assata. Assata, An Autobiography, Chapters 1 and 5. 1st Edition. Chicago, Illinois: Lawrence Hill Books, 1987.
Williams, Evelyn. Inadmissible Evidence: The Story of the African American Trial Lawyer who Defended the Black Liberation Army, (77-89, 107-120, 131-135, 136-147). Lincoln, NE: Lawrence Hill Books, (1993, 2000).
Week 7
Enck-Wanzer, Darrel. The Young Lords: A Reader (11-13, 56-70, 83-86, 127-132, 138-146, 149-151, 169-181, 188-201, 220-222). NY Press, 2010.
Churchill, Ward and Jim Vander Wall. “Cointelpro – Black Liberation Movement,” in The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Domestic Dissent, (91-124, 126-167). Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990.
Optional:
Thomas, Tom. “The Second Battle of Chicago,” in Weatherman, edited by Harold Jacob, 196-226. Ramparts Press, 1970.
Ono, Shinya. “A Weatherman: You Do Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way the Wind Blows,” in Weatherman, edited by Harold Jacob, 227-274. Ramparts Press, 1970.
Week 8
Shakur, Mutulu. “Prisoners of War: The Legal Standing of Members of the National Liberation Movements,” edited by Churchill, Ward and J.J. Vander Wall in Cages of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment in the United States, 152-173.
Berger, Dan and Emily K. Hobson. Remaking Radicalism, 166-201. Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2020.
Peruse:
Volunteer Journalists. “A Chronicle of Prisoner Unrest Across the US and Canada.” Perilous Chronicles. April 17, 2021.
Optional:
Korn, Richard. “Prisoners of War: The Legal Standing of Members of the National Liberation Movements, 152-173”; Rosenberg, Susan. “Reflections on Being Buried Alive,128-130″; “Excerpts from – The Verdict of the International Tribunal on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States, 403-413,” edited by Churchill, Ward and J.J. Vander Wall in Cages of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment in the United States, 152-173;
Matsimela, Muntu. Black Prison Movements USA. The NOBO Journal of African American Dialogue Volume, II (Issue I).
Lopez-Rvera, Oscar. Oscar Lopez-Rivera: Puerto Rican Prisoners of War. In Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. A Collection of Biographies, 171-174. Editorial El Coqui. 5th Edition.
Week 9
Osterweil, Vicky. In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action, 169-252. 1st Edition. New York: Bold Type Books, 2020.
Watch:
Archive, Anonymous. “Touch The Sky: Stories, Subversions, & Complexities of Ferguson,” video (free), 1hr 52m, https://archive.org/details/touch-the-sky
Week 10
Estes, Nick. Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, 1-5, 21-23, 43-70, 90-95, 96-100, 158-168, 172-197. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Week 11
Estes, Nick. Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, 198-208, 211-221, 235-241, 311-344, 290-300. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Optional:
Watch: Latimer, Michelle. “Lessons from the Land: Peace through relationship.” TED Talk. October, 2017.
Week 12
Berger, Dan and Emily K. Hobson. Remaking Radicalism, 205-278. Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2020.
Week 13
Berger, Dan and Emily K. Hobson. Remaking Radicalism, 279-396. Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2020.
Week 14
Berger, Dan and Emily K. Hobson. Remaking Radicalism, 23-64. Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2020.
Kim, Meiners, Petty, Petty, Richie and Ross. “’Do We Want Justice or Do We Want Punishment?’ A Conversation about Carceral Feminism between Rachel Caidor, Shira Hassan, Deana Lewis, and Beth E. Richie, from The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom.
Marlon Bailey, Priya Kandaswamy, Mattie Udora Richardson, “Is Gay Marriage Racist?” in That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Ed. Sycamore (2005).
Law, Victoria. “Against Carceral Feminism,” in The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom, 159-210 edited by Kim, Meiners, Petty, Petty, Richie and Ross.
Watch:
Dean Spade and Hope Dector. “Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues: Understanding the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, 26m, http://www.deanspade.net/2016/02/28/queer-dreams-and-nonprofit-blues/
Week 15
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, The Revolution will not be Funded, Duke University Press Books, 2017.
- Chapter 1: The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, by Dylan Rodríguez
- Chapter 2: In the Shadow of the Shadow State, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Chapter 4: Democratizing American Philanthropy, by Christine E. Ahn
- Chapter 10: Social Service or Social Change?, by Paul Kivel
- Chapter 15: Non-Profits and the Autonomous Grassroots, by Eric Tang
Gupta, Arun. “How the People’s Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign,” Counterpunch. September, 2019.