Teaching Colonization and Decolonization During the “CRT” Panic
We have the tools we need to teach anticolonial history. The anti-“CRT” erasure movement shows why we must.
Tag: education
Call for Contributors: Teaching “CRT” in an Age of White Backlash
For our Winter 2021 issue, The Activist History Review invites essays that consider how we teach “CRT”—the umbrella term white conservatives apply to any teaching critical of white supremacy—amid a white backlash movement that seeks to outlaw our work.
Disability Justice and Mutual Aid Pedagogy or: How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Teach Later On
We don’t want to teach students to work themselves to death over a dollar in someone else’s pocket.
Peripeteia: Meditation on Hegemonic Iconoclasm
We seek not to be trivial adornments of achievements or static shelf pieces—we seek liberation over soulless applause.
White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association
The men of the Dunning School might not advise theses any more, and the historical interpretations these men crafted might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
The Cocking Affair: UGA’s Commitment to White Supremacy
“Cocking accepted his job offer by telegram in September of 1937. A year and a half later, Dean Cocking held a staff meeting so controversial that it led to the state revoking UGA’s accreditation and mobs burning the governor in effigy.”
“Still I Rise”: From the Basement to Beyond; How Marginalized Members of the College Campus Community Mark Space
Marginalized student-activists and diversity workers continue to rise up and mark space in the face of both institutional barriers and the incendiary socio-political discourse of our time.
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.
Liberating the Young Scholar
I always share that I am a student who struggled. My kindergarten teacher told my parents that I would never pass the first grade.
Weird Academica: Life in Academia as a Non-Binary Appalachian
I have found that academia can offer a lower-class West Virginian from a single-mother family the chance to live an illusion. I have been able to travel countries, gain audiences of affluent scholars, and been given a platform for my voice that I would not have received outside of academia.
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