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David Ranney “Living and Dying on the Factory Floor” Upcoming NYC Book Tour
Hard Crackers is excited to co-sponsor a series of talks with David Ranney about his new book. Recently, Jarrod Shanahan caught up with David Ranney to discuss his book and the important lessons for today. Check ...
Morbid Symptoms, Part II: Attack on Rikers Island
This is the second of six reviews chronicling the pseudonymous Fred S. Kreiderโs Rikers Island Series, a horror franchise set on present-day Rikers Island. In the first installment we met narrator Nicholas Billings, a rookie guard ...
Bitterly Divided
The best-kept secret in U.S. history is the resistance of southerners, and especially southern nonslaveholding whites, to the slaveholders during the Civil War. W.E.B. Du Bois, in the chapter โThe General Strikeโ in Black Reconstruction in ...
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โIโm A Modern Man Who Knows How to Wailโ: A Hip-Hop Poet in Fin de Siecle Paris
โIโm the Outcast . . . the โdistinguishedโ chap/Who puts it all in poetry/Iโm more than half crushed to bits / Between the Bourgeoisie and the Worker/Iโm the bloke whose work one hates/Iโm a closet of ...
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On Reading Kenneth Fearingโs โThe Hospitalโ
โIโll never get used to this hospital smell of antiseptic, not even after all the times I visited Alice in Bellevue. Itโs the smell of the grave. Think of something without that smell. Think of something ...
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Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection
Review by Marcelo Badarรณ Mattos The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Edited by Andrew Zimmerman. New York: International Publishers, 2016. Paper, $14.00. Pp. 256. This book is the second ...
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An excerpt from โIf He Hollers Let Him Go,โ by Chester Himes, 1945
posted by James Murray โโฆbut as far as the problem of the Negro industrial worker is concerned, I feel that it is not so much racial as it is the problem of the masses. As ...
Book Review: The Unknown World of the Mobile Home
โCrowded Rookeries of itinerant Flophousesโ: A Review of โThe Unknown World of the Mobile Home โby John Fraser Hurt, Michelle J. Rhodes and John T. Morgan (2002, Johns Hopkins University Press). by Curtis Price Here in ...
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โHow Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalismโ by Ronald W. Dworkin (Lexington Books, 2015)
Reviewed by Curtis Price โEarly Marx also threatens the academy, being critical of the very professors who now stand guard over Marxian scholarship.” This unusual book (unusual because it’s written by a conservative physician and political ...
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The Secret Lives of Rikers Island Jail Guards
โCorrections should rehabilitate the inmates,โ writes C. Renรฉ West in Caught in the Struggle, โbut who has the time. The officers are so busy trying to sift through all the confusion in the parking lots, locker ...