Keenan Norris is an assistant professor of American literature and creative writing at San Jose State University. His just-published novel, The Confession of Copeland Cane, explores issues of police brutality, over-sentencing, the surveillance state, and environmental injustice.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Complicated Relationship: How California’s Community Colleges Educate Future Police and Why Our Curriculum Needs to Change
Can academia and law enforcement occupy the same spaces? And if so, what’s the best way to proceed?...
Racism, Cop Curriculum, and Campus Safety
Why don’t we train police officers in anti-racism?...
Red Summer 1919/2019: The 100th Anniversary of a Current Crisis
In the age of Trump, Americans have conveniently forgotten their long history of white supremacist violence....
To Be Continued, or Who Lost the Civil War?
Keenan Norris on the durability of Confederate kitsch....
Post-Mortem Morning: Oakland and the Remains of the Left
Keenan Norris on the working-class electorate....
Dr. Ben Carson, Thug Life, and Malcolm X
Dr. Ben Carson just ain’t the phenomenon he was a few weeks ago....
