Dan Berger is a writer, activist, and the George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow 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 coeditor of Letters From Young Activists . His latest book is The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism (Rutgers University Press, 2010). His dissertation studied race and visibility in black and Puerto Rican prison radicalism 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]

 

"'The Malcolm X Doctrine': The Republic of New Afrika and National Liberation on U.S. Soil" in New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness [Between the Lines, 2009]

 

"On July 4, Puerto Rico calls for independence," in La Voz del Paseo Boricua [July 2009]

 

"Real Dragons: A Brief History of Political Militancy and Incarceration, 1960s-2000s," in
 

Other work:

Joshua Kahn Russell and I made a Celebrate People's History poster about the Israeli anti-Zionist group Matzpen.