Anti-Racist Curatorial Work
Elena Gonzales: Anti-racist curatorial work is of particular urgency now.
Tag: activist history
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.
Call for Contributors: Antiracism in America
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2019 issue, “Antiracism in America.”
Call for Contributors: Strike!: Labor Conflict in Higher Education
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our August 2019 issue, “Strike!: Labor Conflict in Higher Education”
(Re)recovering Victorian Queer History: Death Wore a Diadem (1989) and Feminist editing practices
Death Wore a Diadem’s editorial in particular is rich in its detail. It records the labours of care and attentiveness performed by a feminist publisher, to an act of lesbian historical narrative creation, itself written in a thoroughly genre-fiction mode.
Home Grown: Critical Queer Activism in Appalachia and the South
Emphasis on organizing along lines of difference as a collective has caused organizations in the South and Appalachia to experience violent backlash.
A Voice Not Heard at Home
To the present and past Mexican farmworker families of Tulare County: I write for you and walk alongside you. Mis vecinos, you are right. You belong here, just as your history of endurance and resilience belongs in our archives.
Call for Contributors: “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our May 2019 issue, “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places.”
What Does it Mean to Be an Activist Historian?: A Roundtable with the Editors
“I see my duty as an activist-historian to also uplift the voices of other activist-historians who may not be traditional historians, but are doing essential historical work, by highlighting their historical-activism on any platform available and joining them in direct action whenever possible.”
A Course of Sources
One of the major purposes of the humanities is to expose students to new points of view, especially the views of minorities and other disadvantaged groups whose voices are often neglected. The Civil War Era is a particularly useful period for such considerations, as it prominently featured racial division that continue today.
