An Antifascism of Care
Antifascism means creating a community of care that makes white authoritarianism impossible.
The Future is Another Country
Antifascism means creating a community of care that makes white authoritarianism impossible.
After seven years of Black Lives Matter, and looking back at several decades of mass incarceration, justice on paper seems less of a triumph.
Time and time again, the Pioneer Fund subsidized research that advanced eugenic theories about racial difference and actively undermined racial equality.
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 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.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our June 2020 issue, “Responding to Far-Right Militants.”
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.
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.
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.
by Sarah Whitwell How the past is remembered is as much a subject of historical inquiry as what transpired inContinue Reading