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Dan Berger is a writer, activist, and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. He writes about race and postwar American social movements. Berger is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (AK Press, 2006) and editor of the forthcoming The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism (Rutgers University Press, 2010). He is completing a dissertation about race, media, and black and Puerto Rican prison activism in the 1970s.
Recent writings include: "Of Black Panthers, Prisons, and a Life in Struggle for Social Justice," in OpEdNews [January 2010] "Constructing Crime, Framing Disaster: Routines of Criminalization and Crisis in Hurricane Katrina" in Punishment and Society volume 11, number 4 [Fall 2009] "Rescuing Civil Rights From Black Power: Collective Memory and Saving the State in Twenty-First Century Prosecutions of 1960s-Era Cases" in Journal for the Study of Radicalism volume 3, number 1 [winter 2009]. Check it out here. "Defining Democracy: Coalition Politics and the Struggle for Media Reform" in the International Journal of Communication. Check it out here (to go straight to the pdf version) or, to see the symposium on media reform that I co-edited with Riley Snorton, go here (and scroll down). "Real Dragons: A Brief History of Political Militancy and Incarceration, 1960s-2000s," in Other work: |
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