Advice from a Katrina Refugee on Hurricane Harvey
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.
Tag: race
No Country for Johnny Reb or Bobby Lee
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.
Sifting through the Madness: Navigating the Academy as a Black Woman PhD Student
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.
Climbing the Ivory Tower: Marginalized Voices in Academia
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.
A United Kingdom?: Teaching Against Imperialism in the UK
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.
Call for Contributors for September 2017 Issue on “Poverty”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles that address the theme of “poverty” to be featured in the September issue.
‘Domestic Insurrections Amongst Us’: A Critical Historiography of Slave Flight in the American Revolution
These scholars have forced historians of all persuasions to take slave flight seriously. The historical canon will be better for it.
Exultations, Agonies, and Love: The Romantics and the Haitian Revolution
The impact of Haitian slaves’ successes fundamentally changed the ways in which imperial governments in Europe viewed enslaved Africans in their empires.
Undeclaring Independence: White Liberals and the Erasure of American History
The violence of imperialism was a daily occurrence. Our support for reparations for that violence should be as well.
A Patriotic Day of Protest
Today’s activists would be wise to take a page from history and use the Fourth of July holiday to illuminate the ways in which American society is becoming ever more unequal.
