Damien M Sojoyner
Biographic Data
| ID | 139028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damien M Sojoyner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damien M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sojoyner |
| SIGNATURE | SOJOYNER D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6213-9310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Blackness Beyond Borders
A Collaborative Experiment in Building Anti-Carceral Pedagogies
The authors outline their development of an abolitionist and anti-carceral syllabus, to be shared as a "model in process" for relational learning and activism. The article provides a number of resources intended as community knowledge building and the development of applied and community-based practices
The Cost of Freedom
With a specific focus on labor, our goal is to demonstrate the inherent violence located within nation-building projects that have performed the slippage of equating freedom with the freedom of people to choose their labor (i.e., wage labor). It is within this context that we situate “work” and “labor” as antithetical to Blackness. Similar to the transmutation of freedom to free labor by the financial and industrial class during Reconstruction, W…
You Are Going to Get Us Killed
The carceral state has been the dominant voice of state governance in the United States over the past forty years. This article takes the archive as a key site of struggle to understand the power dynamics at play with the development of and fight against the carceral state. Utilizing the intervention of the fugitive archival practice, the article analyzes the multifaceted ways in which Black residents and communal institutions of Los Angeles, Cal…
Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
Another Life is Possible
The Black fugitive in the United States has been a metaphorical and literal construction for both exposing oppressive forms of state governance and the development of strategic plans to achieve freedom from the state. Commonly thought of within a historical setting, the Black fugitive in this article is situated within the contemporary urban setting of Los Angeles, California. As told through the lived experience of young Black residents of the c…
First Strike
First Strike is an ambitious project that utilizes a multi-method approach to gain insight into the confluence between public education and prison. It takes an unique perspective and delves into the root causes of an ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy. First Strike intervenes in a spirited public discussion on the relation of education policies and budgets, the rise of mass incarceration and permutations of racism. Pol…
First Strike
Another Life is Possible
The Black fugitive in the United States has been a metaphorical and literal construction for both exposing oppressive forms of state governance and the development of strategic plans to achieve freedom from the state. Commonly thought of within a historical setting, the Black fugitive in this article is situated within the contemporary urban setting of Los Angeles, California. As told through the lived experience of young Black residents of the c…
You Are Going to Get Us Killed
The carceral state has been the dominant voice of state governance in the United States over the past forty years. This article takes the archive as a key site of struggle to understand the power dynamics at play with the development of and fight against the carceral state. Utilizing the intervention of the fugitive archival practice, the article analyzes the multifaceted ways in which Black residents and communal institutions of Los Angeles, Cal…
A Collaborative Experiment in Building Anti-Carceral Pedagogies
The authors outline their development of an abolitionist and anti-carceral syllabus, to be shared as a "model in process" for relational learning and activism. The article provides a number of resources intended as community knowledge building and the development of applied and community-based practices
First Strike
First Strike is an ambitious project that utilizes a multi-method approach to gain insight into the confluence between public education and prison. It takes an unique perspective and delves into the root causes of an ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy. First Strike intervenes in a spirited public discussion on the relation of education policies and budgets, the rise of mass incarceration and permutations of racism. Pol…
First Strike
Another Life is Possible
The Black fugitive in the United States has been a metaphorical and literal construction for both exposing oppressive forms of state governance and the development of strategic plans to achieve freedom from the state. Commonly thought of within a historical setting, the Black fugitive in this article is situated within the contemporary urban setting of Los Angeles, California. As told through the lived experience of young Black residents of the c…
Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
The Cost of Freedom
With a specific focus on labor, our goal is to demonstrate the inherent violence located within nation-building projects that have performed the slippage of equating freedom with the freedom of people to choose their labor (i.e., wage labor). It is within this context that we situate “work” and “labor” as antithetical to Blackness. Similar to the transmutation of freedom to free labor by the financial and industrial class during Reconstruction, W…
You Are Going to Get Us Killed
The carceral state has been the dominant voice of state governance in the United States over the past forty years. This article takes the archive as a key site of struggle to understand the power dynamics at play with the development of and fight against the carceral state. Utilizing the intervention of the fugitive archival practice, the article analyzes the multifaceted ways in which Black residents and communal institutions of Los Angeles, Cal…
A Collaborative Experiment in Building Anti-Carceral Pedagogies
The authors outline their development of an abolitionist and anti-carceral syllabus, to be shared as a "model in process" for relational learning and activism. The article provides a number of resources intended as community knowledge building and the development of applied and community-based practices
Blackness Beyond Borders
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · African americans (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Discrimination in criminal justice administration (2 works)