Bernardine Dohrn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1657945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernardine Dohrn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernardine |
| FAMILY NAME | Dohrn |
| SIGNATURE | DOHRN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Where in the World Are We? Elections, the Color Line, the Decline of Empire and Fireflies
Moving the Bar: Michael Ratner, Social Justice, and a Life Defending the Revolution
There are a thousand ways to be a radical lawyer. Michael Ratner's magnificent Moving the Bar gives a tantalizing taste of how one person, with his increasing band of colleagues, defended movements for social justice and revolution during his lifetime
Our Feminist Poet on Che
Margaret Randall, Che on My Mind (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013), 160 pages, $19.95, paperback.If you have not been thinking about Che, now you will. Our gifted poet, feminist author, and revolutionary thinker has given us a spare and ethical meditation on the lingering life and death of Ernesto Che Guevara. With infinite care and honesty, Margaret Randall circles deeper and more fully into the liberation ideas and actions that she, and…
Radical Internationalist Woman
Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 424 pages, $25, softcover.Eslanda Robeson's robust life and political actions spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, from the Harlem Renaissance to the London theatre, from studies with students from the British empire's colonies to travels to the rural villages of Uganda and the Congo, through anti-fascism and the Secon…
What Race Has to Do With It
Who could have imagined the 2008 presidential campaign? Commentators, media people, and especially politicians fell all over themselves proclaiming that the 2008 election had, "nothing at all to do with race." And yet every event, every speech and comment, every debate and appearance had race written all over it. Stephen Colbert, the brilliant satirist, hit it on the head when he asked a Republican operative, "How many euphemisms have you come up…
Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance
The creation and cultivation of fear is one of the pillars of empire both abroad and within the imperial "homeland." And that fear is always accompanied by the threat of discipline, punishment, and violence. Every state uses violence to enforce its power against its enemies, but we must recognize that a major change has occurred. September 11, 2001 gave a green light for a full blown, and bipartisan, agenda of repression at home, as well as for t…
Lessons for Leftists Old and New
Pablo Neruda wrote in elegant verse what Harry Magdoff analyzed in prose:But we have to see behind all them, there is somethingbehind the traitors and the gnawing rats,an empire which sets the tableand serves up the nourishment and the bullets....Harry saw behind them all, behind the traitors and the gnawing rats, and he identified, analyzed, and rejected the empire which sets the table. The table settings changed over decades, even the size and …
She Challenged the Rules
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A radical Democratic Vision by Barbara RansbyThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
All Ellas: Girls Locked Up
IF YOU GO TO THE WEB SITE of the Florida State Department of Cor rections (DOC), you will find a color photo of Jessica Robinson, a thir teen-year-old at the time of her offense. She went from the streets to Florida adult prison with no time in juvenile corrections.' (Her criminal history is available on the web page.) Like most of the 465 other children incarcerated in adult Florida prisons, she was arrested with older teens and adults, she did …
Sixties Lessons and Lore
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s by Maurice Isserman and Michael KazinThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
All Ellas: Girls Locked Up
IF YOU GO TO THE WEB SITE of the Florida State Department of Cor rections (DOC), you will find a color photo of Jessica Robinson, a thir teen-year-old at the time of her offense. She went from the streets to Florida adult prison with no time in juvenile corrections.' (Her criminal history is available on the web page.) Like most of the 465 other children incarcerated in adult Florida prisons, she was arrested with older teens and adults, she did …
Sixties Lessons and Lore
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s by Maurice Isserman and Michael KazinThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
She Challenged the Rules
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A radical Democratic Vision by Barbara RansbyThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
All Ellas: Girls Locked Up
IF YOU GO TO THE WEB SITE of the Florida State Department of Cor rections (DOC), you will find a color photo of Jessica Robinson, a thir teen-year-old at the time of her offense. She went from the streets to Florida adult prison with no time in juvenile corrections.' (Her criminal history is available on the web page.) Like most of the 465 other children incarcerated in adult Florida prisons, she was arrested with older teens and adults, she did …
Lessons for Leftists Old and New
Pablo Neruda wrote in elegant verse what Harry Magdoff analyzed in prose:But we have to see behind all them, there is somethingbehind the traitors and the gnawing rats,an empire which sets the tableand serves up the nourishment and the bullets....Harry saw behind them all, behind the traitors and the gnawing rats, and he identified, analyzed, and rejected the empire which sets the table. The table settings changed over decades, even the size and …
Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance
The creation and cultivation of fear is one of the pillars of empire both abroad and within the imperial "homeland." And that fear is always accompanied by the threat of discipline, punishment, and violence. Every state uses violence to enforce its power against its enemies, but we must recognize that a major change has occurred. September 11, 2001 gave a green light for a full blown, and bipartisan, agenda of repression at home, as well as for t…
What Race Has to Do With It
Who could have imagined the 2008 presidential campaign? Commentators, media people, and especially politicians fell all over themselves proclaiming that the 2008 election had, "nothing at all to do with race." And yet every event, every speech and comment, every debate and appearance had race written all over it. Stephen Colbert, the brilliant satirist, hit it on the head when he asked a Republican operative, "How many euphemisms have you come up…
Radical Internationalist Woman
Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 424 pages, $25, softcover.Eslanda Robeson's robust life and political actions spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, from the Harlem Renaissance to the London theatre, from studies with students from the British empire's colonies to travels to the rural villages of Uganda and the Congo, through anti-fascism and the Secon…
Our Feminist Poet on Che
Margaret Randall, Che on My Mind (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013), 160 pages, $19.95, paperback.If you have not been thinking about Che, now you will. Our gifted poet, feminist author, and revolutionary thinker has given us a spare and ethical meditation on the lingering life and death of Ernesto Che Guevara. With infinite care and honesty, Margaret Randall circles deeper and more fully into the liberation ideas and actions that she, and…
Moving the Bar: Michael Ratner, Social Justice, and a Life Defending the Revolution
There are a thousand ways to be a radical lawyer. Michael Ratner's magnificent Moving the Bar gives a tantalizing taste of how one person, with his increasing band of colleagues, defended movements for social justice and revolution during his lifetime
Where in the World Are We? Elections, the Color Line, the Decline of Empire and Fireflies
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Empire (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)