Dan Berger is a writer, activist, and assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington at Bothell. He writes about race, media, prisons, and American social movements. Berger is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (AK Press, 2006) and coeditor of Letters From Young Activists . His latest book is The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism (Rutgers University Press, 2010). He is currently writing a book called Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era.