An Anti-Islamophobic President?
Can Muslim Americans trust Joe Biden to be an anti-Islamophobic president? Or, will they face more of the same in a long history of American Islamophobic policy?
Tag: politics
Revolutionaries to Reactionaries: Marronage, Slave Revolt, and the Black Freedom Struggle
Just as the history of the Maroons in Jamaica demonstrate, the black freedom struggle can ill afford any more accommodation or compromise now any more than it did two centuries ago. Marronage is freedom, but only if we collectively understand its limits. Otherwise it is mired in class collaborationist politics which may profess a desire for black freedom, but in reality hamper it at every turn.
Community Activism in Colonial Pennsylvania: How Popular Participation Became State Policy
The broader citizenship did not passively wait for elite men to decide how their government should work. Instead, they mobilized and created political structures based on a rich history of broad-based political participation.
Tyrannical Fears: What if Trump Is the Tyrant Gun Owners Fear?
Usually it is the Left that is stereotyped as tyrannical with its political correctness and assertions of rights, according to the standard Republican line. But really, it’s Trump coming for people’s land, stampeding over rights, and ignoring public opinion.
“Within the Forms of Law”: Politics and Activism, 1850s and Today
Activists have applied political pressure most effectively on the state and local levels. The fugitive slave crisis of the 1850s provides a historical roadmap for embracing formal politics as a means toward activist ends in the United States.
Call for Contributors: Making Brett Kavanaugh – Masculinity in America
The Activist History Review seeks articles on the historical and present-day construction of masculinity in the United States and its significance for politics, society, economics, and culture.
Corruption as a Byproduct of Politics: A Study of Governance Crisis and Threat to Political Stability in Nigeria
On the international scene, Nigeria is now regarded as a country in which integrity and transparency are alien and where no transactions occur without “scratching the back” of the personnel in charge. From the federal to the local level of government, there has been phenomenal increase in the incident of corruption and bad governance which has consistently threatened political stability in the country.
Call for Contributors for February 2018 Issue, “Engineering Freedom”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our February issue, “Engineering Freedom: Technology, Politics, and the Death of Net Neutrality.”
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.”
The Danger of True News on the Road to Charlottesville
Rather than focus on #FakeNews, media consumers should focus on whether true or real news is a reliable or useful standard.
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