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The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture
- M. Francis
- HistoryLaw & Society Review
- 1 March 2019
Response to Julie Novkov's review of Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
- M. Francis
- Political Science, SociologyPerspectives on Politics
- 21 April 2014
1. Rethinking civil rights and American political development 2. The birth of the NAACP, mob violence, and the challenge of public opinion 3. The unsteady march into the Oval Office 4. Anti-lynching…
Black politics and the neoliberal racial order
- Michael C. Dawson, M. Francis
- History, Political Science
- 2016
We are at a critical moment in the history of race in the United States. The years 2013–15 mark the fiftieth anniversaries of some of the most important milestones in the civil rights movement. In…
Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective
- M. Francis, Leah Wright-Rigueur
- HistoryAnnual Review of Law and Social Science
- 13 October 2021
This review examines the Black Lives Matter movement. Despite a growing body of literature focused on explaining the formation and activities of the present Black Lives Matter movement, less…
The Strange Fruit of American Political Development
- M. Francis
- Sociology, Political ScienceThe Politics of Protest
- 2 January 2018
ABSTRACT What is the relationship between black social movements, state violence, and political development in the United States? Today, this question is especially important given the staggering…
The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Racial Politics of Crime and Punishment in the Post–Civil Rights Era
- K. Beckett, M. Francis
- History, Law
- 13 October 2020
This article examines the origins of US mass incarceration. Although it is clear that changes in policy and practice are the proximate drivers of the prison boom, researchers continue to explore—an...
We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution. By Bruce Ackerman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 432 pp. $35.00 hardcover.: Book Reviews
- M. Francis
- History, Law
- 1 September 2016
We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution. By Bruce Ackerman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 432 pp. $35.00 hardcover.Bruce Ackerman has produced a stunning achievement with his latest…
Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan . By Hagan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. 314p. $29.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.
- M. Francis
- Political SciencePerspectives on Politics
- 1 December 2012
other tribes remain anonymous. In principle, this is a problematic choice in any work about specific governments and public administration. In certain circumstances, anonymity may be understandable,…
Movement Capture or Movement Strategy? A Critical Race History Exchange on the Beginnings of Brown v. Board
- M. Francis, J. Witt
- HistorySSRN Electronic Journal
- 15 June 2020
In 2019, Megan Ming Francis published a path-breaking article challenging the conventional wisdom in the field on a core piece of civil rights history: the role of a philanthropic foundation called…
Can Black Lives Matter within U.S. Democracy?
- M. Francis
- Political ScienceThe ANNALS of the American Academy of Political…
- 1 January 2022
This article examines the impact of anti-Black state violence on U.S. democracy, tracing the history of that violence and how it has changed from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. I…
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