The Future is Another Country
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.
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?
This essay unpacks the mid-century theories expounded by Raya Dunayevskaya and her comrade C.L.R. James that anti-racist organizing provided a ferment for broader struggles for social justice.
For my family, friends, and neighbors, survival means standing up and saying that the rich and powerful cannot steal our democracy.
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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