Activism - AAIHS

Me, My Mom, and Her Mental Illness

October 14, 2020October 10, 2020 Billie-Rae Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, #MentalHealth, Black women, Gender

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

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