Author: Anna Neumann

Anna Neumann is a third year PhD student in African American Studies and Social Anthropology at Harvard University. Before coming to Harvard, she received a Magister in American Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin. Her research focuses on African American street dance and performance in Los Angeles and Oakland. Considering the dances as attempts to reassert and reclaim the rights to (public) space and citizenship in the U.S., she is particularly interested in the dances’ interrelations with racism, necropolitics, and the commodification of black bodies.

Anna Neumann

#Review: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

June, 2016 / By Anna Neumann

Dan Berger’s relationship with “America’s political prisoners” (xii) has been personal from the very beginning. At age sixteen and out […]