Who Does ‘The Help’ Help? A Curt Critique
Just like we can ask in 2023 who feels free in watching “Emancipation,” we should also ask who “The Help” actually helps.
The Future is Another Country
Just like we can ask in 2023 who feels free in watching “Emancipation,” we should also ask who “The Help” actually helps.
Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.
What we have in the potential reversal of Roe represents a new form of state violence born out of a different sort of anxiety around the body politic, one that seeks to alleviate doubts around the interests of men and, at a deeper level, the infrastructure of white supremacy.
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.
What can instructors do right now to advance the cause of Black liberation?
How American racism, capitalism, and imperialism led the U.S. to sabotage African democracies.
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.