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.
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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.
“No’m, I aint tellin’ no lies. It de gospel truf”: Historical Memory and the Slave Narrative Collection
by Sarah Whitwell How the past is remembered is as much a subject of historical inquiry as what transpired inContinue Reading
Come Unity: Activism in the Virtual Realm
“Come.Unity” serves as a gathering place for Black optimism, fostering a Black future without Black death at its end but an end with joy—a communal victory dance.
Call For Contributors: 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
The Colonization of Puerto Rico and the Limits of Impeachment
It is misleading to call impeachment “justice” when it reflects the priorities of empire.
