Understanding the Scourge of Severe Poverty
This is what we often overlook when we write about work: people exist beyond of systems of labor and exploitation.
Tag: racism
Poverty is Synonymous with Misery
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.
Call for Contributors for October 2017 Issue on “The Road to Charlottesville”
The Activist History Review invites article proposals for our October issue, “The Road to Charlottesville.”
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.
Education is Political
Education is political. Most educators stray away from that idea, but it is. In the curriculum and in the choices we make about what to teach and how to teach it, education is political. And, for the most part, our country’s curriculum is white.
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.
Anderson Runs for Mayor to Stop the Painful Violence
Charles’ art and activism have been a fixture in the city for the last decade, so when I learned Charles would be running for mayor, I knew I wanted to interview him.
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.
Dark Side of Jacksonian Democracy: Revolution and Racist Oppression
President Jackson and Trump’s particular brands of democracy share a streak of racist oppression and both inspired especially personal resistance movements.
