The New F.A.D. For Racial Justice: A Satire
Thousands and thousands of people have taken to the street to protest the death of countless Black people… We have chosen to present this letter.
Tag: academia
What SUNY Albany Tells Us About the Policing of University Space
By examining the rise of university police departments at State University of New York at Albany, the first SUNY school to arm their campus police officers, this article provides a historical perspective to better understand contemporary instances of racialized policing behind university gates.
A Black Class: Re-Learning Abolition in Higher Education Organizing
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to help set it in motion and watch it crash into the structures that for far too long have limited our vision of community to brutality and fear.
Buying Space, Policing Race
How Virginia Commonwealth University’s efforts to expand by buying up property in Richmond and creating a highly-policed bus route through historically Black neighborhoods has contributed to White Supremacy.
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.
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 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.
Strikes in Australian Higher Education: Stories From the Field
This article adopts critical auto-ethnography to examine how Australian university unions and unionists have developed strategies for campus activism. The enablers and restraints on union activism in Australian higher education are discussed using the device of vignettes of a unionist active in the sector from the 1980’s onwards, and an agenda for the future raised.
“Oh, How Specific!”: Explaining Your (Obscure?) Topic This Holiday Season
The festive season is a time when we’re confronted with the best and worst of ourselves as a society. But for academics, and particularly for those of us still toiling away in graduate school, the chance to reconnect with friends and family brings with it a formidable challenge—the perennial task of explaining, to the satisfaction of your interlocutor, what exactly it is that you study anyway, huh?
Call for Contributors: Oh, the Humanities!
The Activist History Review invites proposals for that essay you’ve been meaning to write, and other stories of good will.
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