Move, Dance, Talk, Resist
For immigrant women to dance and expose themselves through movement is a political act of resistance.
Tag: migration
Dakota Uprooted: Capitalism, Resilience, and the U.S.-Dakota War
White American empire transformed Minnesota into an agricultural and extraction-based economy that uprooted Dakota from their traditional homelands.
Gone with the Wind: Tracing Agricultural Migrant Labor
Lange’s photographs can be considered “care work,” the devalued labor, integral to maintaining human life. By identifying the distress of migrant laborers’ lives, Lange indicated where care had lapsed.
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: “Migrant: Unwaged Work in the U.S.”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our April 2019 issue, “Migrant: Unwaged Work in the U.S.”
Policing Patriotism: A Brief Reflection on Racism, Migration Status, and Belonging
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln tried to calm the fears of his political opponents: “While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.”
