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Call for Contributors: White Supremacy in the University
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our November issue: “White Supremacy in the University.” Submissions are due October 21st.
#FightingForWright: Our Strike to Preserve the Academic Mission of Our University
The most gratifying and telling support that we received during the strike was from students.
Diversify Academia: A Pledge
We hope, by publishing a pledge and a public list of those who have taken it, to pressure academic institutions and societies to better reflect both the diverse nature of existing scholarship and to foster a more inclusive profession that embraces the diversity of our communities worldwide.
Race and Policing in Higher Education
This article explores the history of police presence in the university setting to understand the gap between administrators’ professed desire to keep campuses safe through policing and the reality that police presence makes campus climates less safe for students of color.
Call for Contributors: Political Art: The Movement(s) of Protest
TAHR seeks essays that explore the role of socially-engaged art (including visual arts, music, dance, ritual, digital arts etc.) in protest movements and other forms of grassroots direct action
Call for Contributors: Impeachment for Democracy
TAHR seeks essays that address impeachment as a way of reclaiming popular sovereignty—an opportunity to leverage the survival-politics of protest and agitation to create a more equal society.
Tenure and Promotion as White Supremacy in the University: The Illness Explained and Possible Treatment
We have a way to go before we reach a fair and just tenure and promotion process for faculty of color at institutions. Change is possible if administrations commit to an overhaul of the systems and demand the impossible.
Call for Papers: Bi-Annual Conference “Race and Equity in Higher Ed”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for its bi-annual conference, “Race and Equity in Higher Ed,” to be held on June 13, 2020 at Villanova University.
“Still I Rise”: From the Basement to Beyond; How Marginalized Members of the College Campus Community Mark Space
Marginalized student-activists and diversity workers continue to rise up and mark space in the face of both institutional barriers and the incendiary socio-political discourse of our time.
Remembering The Ad Hoc Committee for Handicapped Access (AHCHA): Against Erasure of Disability History At the University Of Chicago
The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me.
The Racialized History of Disability Activism from the “Willowbrooks of this World”[1]
Their stories enrich and expand our understanding of both disability and civil rights activism—not as an afterthought or appendage, but as integral to both.
Claiming Black Lung: Towards an Appalachian Disability Justice
The black lung movement shows that disability functions as a powerful force in creating cultural groups.
