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Hawa Allan

Hawa Allan writes cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry. She is an essay editor at The Offing and her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Tricycle magazine, where she is a contributing editor. Her book Insurrection, a weaving of personal narrative and legal history, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She is a lawyer and graduate of Columbia Law School.

 

 

Of Many Minds

July 26, 2018
Asad Haider on why identity politics is both a source of awareness and division, a boon and a burden for the left.

By What Authority?

November 23, 2016
The 1890 massacre of as many as 300 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, by a U.S. Army regiment was precipitated by a Ghost Dance. The dance was originally envisioned by a Paiute shaman in Nevada, a turning point in a prophesy of his in which Jesus ...