The Future is Another Country
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me.
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.
The black lung movement shows that disability functions as a powerful force in creating cultural groups.
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