The Future is Another Country
The failure engendered in poverty is a collective one. It represents our willingness to accept a world where “the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many”—a world where those living east of the Anacostia are condemned to destitution and misery.
The Activist History Review invites article proposals for our October issue, “The Road to Charlottesville.”
It may be a truism that the storm washed massive structural injustices into our collective view, but as a country, we seem to have rationalized them away.
Removal without consideration of the historical context that led to their placement and the social wounds inflicted by white supremacy that are continually reopened in communities around the nation does nothing to resolve structural racism and heal those wounds.
In a sense, I knew what I was getting into. I entered well-aware of the institutional, systemic norms that have precluded Black women from doing this work and creating knowledge that seeks to disrupt many of the corrupt, perverse, misguided myths about who we are and what we have done. My awareness, though, has not made my short journey less arduous.
As part of our special issue on “education” for the month of August, The Activist History Review would like to introduce a multi-part series on the experiences of academics from marginalized communities.
Ignorance can be counteracted within schools and the education system by teaching the truth of Britain and Empire. The people of tomorrow aren’t just white British, but are multicultural.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles that address the theme of “poverty” to be featured in the September issue.
These scholars have forced historians of all persuasions to take slave flight seriously. The historical canon will be better for it.
The impact of Haitian slaves’ successes fundamentally changed the ways in which imperial governments in Europe viewed enslaved Africans in their empires.
