The Future is Another Country
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.
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.
Our schools criminalize Black children. We don’t just need lessons acknowledging racism. We need to create an antiracist education system.
We have the tools we need to teach anticolonial history. The anti-“CRT” erasure movement shows why we must.
You can’t tell the story of Midwestern cities like Toledo without being honest about their white supremacy problems.
Three school board members share their struggle to provide students with the best possible education amid anti-“CRT” scaremongering.
To ignore critical race theory is to set our democracy back, to neglect the difficult history of our country, and to further marginalize students.
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.
Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.
Our history shows that nonpartisan engagement has failed because white supremacists are totally devoted to white mythologies, making a commitment to truth intrinsically “partisan.”
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