Who Does ‘The Help’ Help? A Curt Critique
Just like we can ask in 2023 who feels free in watching “Emancipation,” we should also ask who “The Help” actually helps.
Tag: racism
The Predator Class is Hungry for a Post-Roe World
From gendered exclusions to the explicitly carceral capitalism of sharecropping, the predator class squeezed profit from precarity. It is one lesson they have not forgotten despite their erasure of slavery and its afterlives from public memory.
Labor Ecologies and the Right to Survive
In partnership with The Activist History Review, Green Theory and Praxis invites contributions for Volume 14, Issue 2 that explore how we seize the right to survive for one another and in solidarity with our global community.
Confronting the Whiteness in Black Girls’ Criminalization
Our schools criminalize Black children. We don’t just need lessons acknowledging racism. We need to create an antiracist education system.
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.
We Need “CRT” to Understand the Midwest, Too
You can’t tell the story of Midwestern cities like Toledo without being honest about their white supremacy problems.
Conflating ‘CRT’ and Equity: School Board Members’ Perspectives from the Front Line
Three school board members share their struggle to provide students with the best possible education amid anti-“CRT” scaremongering.
Critical Race Theory in the Mathematics Classroom
To ignore critical race theory is to set our democracy back, to neglect the difficult history of our country, and to further marginalize students.
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.
The Strange Career of Voting Rights in Texas
Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.
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