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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.
Adjusted Syllabus: The Political Struggle over the Teaching Curriculum in the University of Delhi
On the recent fight to prevent Modi’s government from controlling the University of Delhi’s teaching curriculum, which is part of a larger effort by Hindu nationalists to maintain cultural and political hegemony in India.
Anti-Racist Curatorial Work
Elena Gonzales: Anti-racist curatorial work is of particular urgency now.
An Antiracist Approach to Researching and Writing History
Hawks traces one example from her own research on the Freedom Train to highlight an antiracist approach to researching and writing history.
Book Review: How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi’s much-anticipated second book, How to Be An Antiracist, hit shelves across the world last month.
Burning Borders: Disability Brought to Bear
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our October 2019 issue, “Burning Borders: Disability Brought to Bear.”
Call for Editors
Qualified applicants may hail from a wide variety of personal, political, intellectual, and disciplinary backgrounds both in and out of academia, but should be dedicated to understanding the ways that our studies of the past should impact our actions in the present. We especially encourage members of marginalized communities to apply.
The SaveGradEd Movement at Ohio State: Graduate Student Labor Still Needs Saving
“In early November 2017 the Republican-led House of Representatives released their version of what would become the Tax and Job Acts—an unprecedented give away to the wealthiest Americans. A provision in the bill would have included the ‘taxing’ of graduate student tuition waivers. As a result, graduate students could have owed the government thousands of dollars in ‘taxes,’ despite the majority of graduate students earning less than $20,000 a year. “
Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike
The failures of the Hormel plant strike in 1985-86 captured the U.S. public imagination, setting a defeatist tone for the labor movement. But what might the labor movement still learn from the successes of the 1984-85 Yale strike of mostly-women clerical and technical workers?
The History Workshop, Campus Politics, and Our Contemporary Struggles for Equality
“In effect, the History Workshop Journal editors were reviving a longer legacy of solidarity between atomized elements of the working class; between university students and teachers, historians and the public, and campus workers and trade unions. Throughout the twentieth century, these groups allied in the face of existential threats.”
