The Future is Another Country
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.
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.
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.
Khristie’s sustenance of racism hurts not only themselves and the Tiffanys of the world, but also rolls the clock back and provides an incubator for white supremacy that stunts the growth of all communities—more specifically communities of color, the same supportive communities that will “stick with her” through thick and thin.
