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.
Tag: racism
The Partisan Solution: Du Bois on “The Crisis” of Racist Misinformation
Our history shows that nonpartisan engagement has failed because white supremacists are totally devoted to white mythologies, making a commitment to truth intrinsically “partisan.”
Call For Contributors: “The Crisis: Fighting for Multiracial Democracy”
The Activist History Review invites essays that explore the entanglements of capitalism with white supremacy.
An Architecture of Healing: Transforming Racism
It is our goal that no one leaves the building unchanged and without learning something new about Fort Worth, its residents, and its history.
Suspect Science: Today’s Anglo-American Eugenics
Time and time again, the Pioneer Fund subsidized research that advanced eugenic theories about racial difference and actively undermined racial equality.
Just Like Earl: William Luther Pierce and the Hero Complex of Far-Right Masculinity
Pierce fetishized a particularly patriarchal, violent, and primitive form of masculinity and deliberately sought to attack the masculine insecurities of his readers in order to mobilize a violent hero complex.
The Badge and the Skull: Cops, Militants, and a Punisher Fetish
The symbol stands for vigilante justice and punishment, something that we all should find unsettling when worn by those who are supposedly sworn to protect us.
COVID-19 Shows Republicans’ Commitment to Eugenics
The idea that Asians are, intrinsically, vehicles of contagion is straight from Eugenics 101. Unfortunately, Eugenics 101 has long been a required course for American officials.
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.
Children Are Our Past
The stories of enslaved children not only deserve to be told, but also contribute new interpretations of the past, furthering studies of community, family, and resistance.
