The Future is Another Country
If critical disability studies is to replace our traditional analyses and modes of intervention, then we must continue to approach dis/ability within the broader matrix of colonization, questioning and challenging the ways in which dominant power relations recognize, regulate, and govern our lifeways.
As we write catalog entries to gather these artifacts into an exhibit and then interpret the connections that will emerge in exhibition guide essays, we hope to raise questions for the audience, to allow those who are disabled to see themselves in the story.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our November issue: “White Supremacy in the University.” Submissions are due October 21st.
I heard someone who was a professional Christian for a living explain why they were not a part of the community that their ministry served.
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.
The poet/novelist Harper along with the composer/librettist Scott Joplin embodied a form of activism that was expressed through the arts, rather than more-overt forms of political rhetoric.
What does an antiracist archaeology look like and how can it be accomplished in a profession that remains predominantly white and continues to privilege whiteness?
The anti-racist protests of the Kerner Commission reveal that if structural racism can be overcome in U.S. democracy, the moral weight of white supremacy must be eradicated otherwise democratic protest will forever be read as a threat.
Elena Gonzales: Anti-racist curatorial work is of particular urgency now.
Hawks traces one example from her own research on the Freedom Train to highlight an antiracist approach to researching and writing history.
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