March 8, 1950—International Women’s Day—Marked the Embrace of a Feminist Battle Against Imperialism This post was originally published on Zócalo Public Square and is reposted here with permission. By Elisabeth B. Armstrong, author …
Read More >By Nicole Constable, author of Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations Since the 1990s, I have done field research in Hong Kong among Filipino and Indonesian migrant workers and activists, most …
Read More >This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan’s medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is situated in …
Read More >California History recently published its second special issue on the history of African Americans in California. This issue arrived in a moment of profound reckoning on racial injustice broadly, from police violence …
Read More >By Tatiana Reinoza, co-editor of Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking Throughout the last five decades, Self Help Graphics & Art has created an artist-centered …
Read More >Tracing the paths of figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi, and Soviet feminist Alexandra …
Read More >Three Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art’s first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and …
Read More >By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, …
Read More >On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, …
Read More >By Susan Sered, author of Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility The following blog is reposted from the author’s ongoing blog about updates from the women of Can’t Catch …
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