Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist During World War II
Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as […]
View ArticleWhere Are You From?
How place determines race for racially in-between immigrants. July 4, 2002, was a particularly humid Independence Day in […]
View ArticleDemocracy of Sound Is Out in Paperback!
It’s book-assigning season at colleges and universities across the United States, at least for those on the semester […]
View ArticleCritique after Modern Monetary Theory
The following is an excerpt from the new book Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care, […]
View ArticleCornpone Cultural Politics in The Beverly Hillbillies
Like The Andy Griffith Show, the near total absence of black characters on The Beverly Hillbillies made the show’s southernness more viable to its millions of viewers. It taught them that erasing was...
View ArticleFrank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics
In this excerpt from his book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, […]
View ArticleStorming the Casino: Dawson Barrett on the Rise of Today’s New Resistance...
Neoliberalism’s “casino capitalism” has stacked the political deck in favor of powerful private interests. At every step, however, protesters and other activists have opposed neoliberal logic and...
View ArticleWhat Is a Gift?
But whatever a gift is and however we define it, we tend to think that we know what it is. We assume that when you or I say “gift” we are talking about the same thing—that what we mean is a given.
View ArticleThe Forgotten History of Feminismo Americano
Feminismo americano galvanized leaders and groups throughout the Western hemisphere who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism—a fight for women’s rights and human rights on a...
View ArticleA Dam in Slabtown: The Untold History of Environmental Struggles in the New...
The New South economy was more than a story of extractive industry and environmental declension, argues historian Will Bryan.
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