Call For Papers: Black Resistance to Slavery and its Afterlives
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our February 2020 issue: Black Resistance to Slavery and its Afterlives
Tag: racism
The Colonization of Puerto Rico and the Limits of Impeachment
It is misleading to call impeachment “justice” when it reflects the priorities of empire.
The Time for Equality is Now!
The cravenly undemocratic ethos of the Republican Party is reaching new heights in their desperation to retain power at any cost. Theirs are not the actions of a government responsible to the people, but those of a cabal of self-interested elites.
A Week in the Life of Ole Miss: February 2019 and the Fight to Take Down the Confederate Statue
“At the University of Mississippi, the incompetence and unwillingness of the administration to address Confederate symbols further entrenches white supremacy. It is, as they say, a feature and not a bug.”
White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association
The men of the Dunning School might not advise theses any more, and the historical interpretations these men crafted might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
The Cocking Affair: UGA’s Commitment to White Supremacy
“Cocking accepted his job offer by telegram in September of 1937. A year and a half later, Dean Cocking held a staff meeting so controversial that it led to the state revoking UGA’s accreditation and mobs burning the governor in effigy.”
A Black Class: Re-Learning Abolition in Higher Education Organizing
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to help set it in motion and watch it crash into the structures that for far too long have limited our vision of community to brutality and fear.
Buying Space, Policing Race
How Virginia Commonwealth University’s efforts to expand by buying up property in Richmond and creating a highly-policed bus route through historically Black neighborhoods has contributed to White Supremacy.
#ChangetheDamnName: MTSU Student Activism Against Forrest Hall, White Supremacy, and a Reparative Approach to Heritage Preservation
What might a reparative approach to heritage preservation look like? First, a reparative approach to heritage preservation involves taking seriously the collective wounds and violence on which institutions like the university are structured.
Race and Policing in Higher Education
This article explores the history of police presence in the university setting to understand the gap between administrators’ professed desire to keep campuses safe through policing and the reality that police presence makes campus climates less safe for students of color.
