Call for Contributors for January 2018 issue “From Weinstein to Moore”
The Activist History Review invites article proposals for our January issue, “From Weinstein to Moore: Sexual Predation in American Culture.”
Tag: Donald Trump
The Year Since the Election: A Retrospective Series
The two articles in this series offer a glimpse into the efforts some of us have made to resist the worst excesses of his presidency, and the role history has played in shaping our responses. As historians, we have an obligation to speak truth. As citizens, we have an obligation to speak truth to power. This series documents both.
A Historian Fights to Protect Healthcare in Trump’s America
The dark night that he sailed to victory, I knew that I wanted to contribute my time, skills, and resources to protect our civil and Constitutional rights from the demagoguery and heightened racism and bigotry of all stripes that a Trump presidency threatened.
Nobody’s a Nazi, or Denying Everyday White Supremacy and the Dangerous Lesson of Charlottesville
Where do we find mainstream expression of white supremacy today? The answer emerges across the media and political landscape. One of the key markers of white supremacy is the anxiety of being replaced, pushed out in the new multicultural social order.
Wealth Abounds: Poverty in Native America
The U.S. government, through centuries of policy and practice, established and maintained Indian poverty.
White Poor, Black Poor: Untangling Structure and Culture
While the debate about the underlying causes of poverty is not new, the racial and class antagonisms of the 2016 election provide an opportunity to search for new answers to this old problem.
Trump: A Pecuniary Barbarian in a New Gilded Age
Underserving of merit in any other way, Donald Trump’s overweening emphasis on his financial success is an effective way to establish social dominance and gain power from individuals who consider wealth the ultimate “accomplishment.”
Understanding the Scourge of Severe Poverty
This is what we often overlook when we write about work: people exist beyond of systems of labor and exploitation.
Dr. Strangeland: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Ban
As an individual, there are so many identities (or labels) that apply to me: a Pakistani, a Muslim, a man, a historian, and so on. On their own, these identities are not too different from millions of others in the world. But it is the combination of all these identities that made me pursue a career as a historian, and it is also the combination of all these identities that acted as the biggest roadblock in doing so.
“In Our Own Interests”: The Destructive History of Nationalism in the Habsburg Monarchy and What It Means for White Nationalists
The triumphalism in [nationalist] narrative[s] ignores the destructive nature of nationalism while also legitimizing it as a real and natural occurrence, despite the bulk of nationalist theory showing that it is far from that. By relying on this narrative, we may fail to see the danger present in new nationalist movements such as the recently emergent White Nationalism.
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