Activism - AAIHS

Pandemic Deepens Food Inequality in Brooklyn

October 13, 2020October 19, 2020 Khadhazha Welch #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black women, Gender, racism, Resistance

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

Autoethnographies of a Pandemic from Brooklyn’s Epicenter

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Jeanne Theoharis, Joseph Entin, and Dominick Braswell #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, class, COVID-19, ethnography, health, medical racism, New York, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, student activism

Editor’s note: Today we are pleased to announce the launch of a two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students

Black Queer Women and Femmes Fight for Housing Rights in Brooklyn

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Emily Batiste #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black Queers, class, COVID-19, race, racism, student activism

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

Kwame Nkrumah and Decolonial Imagination

October 9, 2020October 13, 2020 Dan Magaziner Ghana

Historian Jeffrey Ahlman talks with Dan Magaziner about Nkrumahism’s shifting forms, and its influence on contemporary decolonization movements. We have

Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 Barbara Lau and Robin Kirk Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, education, Gender, race, racism, Resistance, sexuality, South

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.