Racial Violence - AAIHS

Interrogating the Master Narrative of “My Family’s Slave”

Alex Tizon’s widely acclaimed article in The Atlantic about his family’s horrific abuse and exploitation of a domestic worker has

If the November 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency provided an occasion to measure the distance the United

I will never forget the unnerving feeling that washed over me when I first saw Sandra Bland’s mug shot circulating

“Poetry is not a luxury.” — Audre Lorde America horrifies me. Its savagery and vulgarity. Its appetite for racial terror.

Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students