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South Asian America: An Election Year Microsyllabus
By Jessica Namakkal It has been a big year for South Asian Americans in politics. Before the summer of 2024, there were two conservatives, Nikki…
Congressman Vito Marcantonio: A Utopian Vision for His Time and Ours
By Sandhya Shukla Seventy years ago today, Vito Marcantonio, the most left-wing congressman in US history, suffered a fatal heart attack. He had by then…
Detention Nation: US Empire and Immigrant Prisons – Tina Shull and Elliott Young in Conversation
By Tina Shull and Elliott Young Elliott Young’s book Forever Prisoners tells the stories of migrants caught in the jaws of the US immigration bureaucracy…
Immigration and Mental Health Collide, Again
By Jeremy Peschard In recent years, politicians in the United States have paid significant attention to two major political issues: firstly, the increased number of…
The Weapon of Sexual Violence and its Discontents
By Charlotte Mertens In the wake of accusations of mass rape and sexual torture of Israeli women by Hamas and the ongoing sexual (and other)…
Pushing Forward: 25 Years of Black AIDS Awareness
By Aishah Scott Since 1999, February 7th has been observed as National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) in the United States to acknowledge the continuous…
Residential School Denialism, Conspiracy Theories, and the Far-Right’s Genocidal Attack against Indigenous Peoples
By Kat Fuller “The Canadian Mass Grave Hoax” is the title of a YouTube video by the infamous Canadian political commentator Lauren Southern. Southern is…
Challenging and Documenting State Violence: A Conversation with Activist Kipp Dawson
By Catherine A. Evans and Jessie B. Ramey For the current issue of Radical History Review, we wrote about activist Kipp Dawson. Drawing from two…