Toussaint Losier
Biographic Data
| ID | 82357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toussaint Losier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toussaint |
| FAMILY NAME | Losier |
| SIGNATURE | LOSIER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | ORCID |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2295-1531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pursuing a Third World War in Pieces
The Public Does Not Believe the Police Can Police Themselves”
The article examines the tenure of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, and his relationship to the Chicago Police Department (CPD). It suggests that while police accountability had been a long-standing goal of Washington and his allies, he failed to sufficiently address the impunity of the CPD once elected. From the outset, the Washington administration exemplified this contradiction by appointing the police department’s first black s…
A Human Right to Reparations
On May 6, 2015, the Chicago City Council adopted legislation that formally sought to repair the damage wrought by a decades-long pattern of police torture. After months of careful negotiations between City Hall and the advocates for torture survivors, the council unanimously passed a package of laws providing for both financial and nonfinancial compensation, or reparations, for torture survivors and their families. While this package of laws limi…
Rethinking the American Prison Movement
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of…
Against 'law and order' lockup
The article focuses on a series of rebellions that occurred within the New York City jail system in 1970 over problems of overcrowding and inhumane conditions and the resurgent practice of preventive detention. While championed in the Nixon administration's vision of 'law and order', preventive detention was carried out by John Lindsay, the liberal Republican mayor of New York City, not only against political dissidents, but also against working-…
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
On October 25, 1829, Eastern State Penitentiary, one of the first modern prisons in the United States, received its first prisoner, Charles Williams, a young African American man. Although little is known of Williams, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict details the experiences of another African American prisoner, Austin Reed. Through his previously unknown memoir, Reed describes how he was held in various New York penal institutions…
For Strictly Religious Reason[s]”
In 1957, Thomas X. Cooper, a Chicago native and former Roman Catholic, wrote to Elijah Muhammad to be registered as a member of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam (NOI). Like tens of thousands of other African Americans during the 1950s, he looked to the NOI as an answer to both social and spiritual questions. But unlike other NOI converts, Cooper was prisoner no. 33527, serving a 100-year homicide sentence at Illinois’ infamous Stateville penitentia…
Jean Anil Louis-Juste, Prezan
On January 12, 2010, several hours before a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, gunmen shot and killed Sociology Professor Jean Anil Louis-Juste as he was leaving the grounds of his department at the State University of Haiti. A tireless revolutionary and engaged academic, Louis-Juste had recently received multiple death threats for his role in organizing a series of university student demonstrations that sparked wildcat strikes at on…
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
On October 25, 1829, Eastern State Penitentiary, one of the first modern prisons in the United States, received its first prisoner, Charles Williams, a young African American man. Although little is known of Williams, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict details the experiences of another African American prisoner, Austin Reed. Through his previously unknown memoir, Reed describes how he was held in various New York penal institutions…
The Public Does Not Believe the Police Can Police Themselves”
The article examines the tenure of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, and his relationship to the Chicago Police Department (CPD). It suggests that while police accountability had been a long-standing goal of Washington and his allies, he failed to sufficiently address the impunity of the CPD once elected. From the outset, the Washington administration exemplified this contradiction by appointing the police department’s first black s…
A Human Right to Reparations
On May 6, 2015, the Chicago City Council adopted legislation that formally sought to repair the damage wrought by a decades-long pattern of police torture. After months of careful negotiations between City Hall and the advocates for torture survivors, the council unanimously passed a package of laws providing for both financial and nonfinancial compensation, or reparations, for torture survivors and their families. While this package of laws limi…
Against 'law and order' lockup
The article focuses on a series of rebellions that occurred within the New York City jail system in 1970 over problems of overcrowding and inhumane conditions and the resurgent practice of preventive detention. While championed in the Nixon administration's vision of 'law and order', preventive detention was carried out by John Lindsay, the liberal Republican mayor of New York City, not only against political dissidents, but also against working-…
For Strictly Religious Reason[s]”
In 1957, Thomas X. Cooper, a Chicago native and former Roman Catholic, wrote to Elijah Muhammad to be registered as a member of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam (NOI). Like tens of thousands of other African Americans during the 1950s, he looked to the NOI as an answer to both social and spiritual questions. But unlike other NOI converts, Cooper was prisoner no. 33527, serving a 100-year homicide sentence at Illinois’ infamous Stateville penitentia…
Jean Anil Louis-Juste, Prezan
On January 12, 2010, several hours before a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, gunmen shot and killed Sociology Professor Jean Anil Louis-Juste as he was leaving the grounds of his department at the State University of Haiti. A tireless revolutionary and engaged academic, Louis-Juste had recently received multiple death threats for his role in organizing a series of university student demonstrations that sparked wildcat strikes at on…
For Strictly Religious Reason[s]”
In 1957, Thomas X. Cooper, a Chicago native and former Roman Catholic, wrote to Elijah Muhammad to be registered as a member of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam (NOI). Like tens of thousands of other African Americans during the 1950s, he looked to the NOI as an answer to both social and spiritual questions. But unlike other NOI converts, Cooper was prisoner no. 33527, serving a 100-year homicide sentence at Illinois’ infamous Stateville penitentia…
Jean Anil Louis-Juste, Prezan
On January 12, 2010, several hours before a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, gunmen shot and killed Sociology Professor Jean Anil Louis-Juste as he was leaving the grounds of his department at the State University of Haiti. A tireless revolutionary and engaged academic, Louis-Juste had recently received multiple death threats for his role in organizing a series of university student demonstrations that sparked wildcat strikes at on…
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
On October 25, 1829, Eastern State Penitentiary, one of the first modern prisons in the United States, received its first prisoner, Charles Williams, a young African American man. Although little is known of Williams, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict details the experiences of another African American prisoner, Austin Reed. Through his previously unknown memoir, Reed describes how he was held in various New York penal institutions…
Rethinking the American Prison Movement
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of…
Against 'law and order' lockup
The article focuses on a series of rebellions that occurred within the New York City jail system in 1970 over problems of overcrowding and inhumane conditions and the resurgent practice of preventive detention. While championed in the Nixon administration's vision of 'law and order', preventive detention was carried out by John Lindsay, the liberal Republican mayor of New York City, not only against political dissidents, but also against working-…
A Human Right to Reparations
On May 6, 2015, the Chicago City Council adopted legislation that formally sought to repair the damage wrought by a decades-long pattern of police torture. After months of careful negotiations between City Hall and the advocates for torture survivors, the council unanimously passed a package of laws providing for both financial and nonfinancial compensation, or reparations, for torture survivors and their families. While this package of laws limi…
The Public Does Not Believe the Police Can Police Themselves”
The article examines the tenure of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, and his relationship to the Chicago Police Department (CPD). It suggests that while police accountability had been a long-standing goal of Washington and his allies, he failed to sufficiently address the impunity of the CPD once elected. From the outset, the Washington administration exemplified this contradiction by appointing the police department’s first black s…
Pursuing a Third World War in Pieces
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Prison (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works)