Protestors in Paris, June 16 2020. Photo credit: Mathilde Larrere, Twitter @LarrereMathilde
By Chelsea Stieber As monuments are dismantled and statues brought down across the globe, debates about slavery, memory, histories, and silences have come to occupy…
Black Lives Matter Protest in DC, 6/1/2020. (Instagram: @koshuphotography) By Charlotte Rosen The police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, and the subsequent uprisings against racist police brutality in Minneapolis and…
Pablo Delano, A Group of newly made Americans at Ponce, Porto Rico, (detail from the conceptual art installation The Museum of the Old Colony, 2016-ongoing). Source: Stereocard published by M. H. Zahner, Niagara Falls, New York, 1898. Photographer not identified. By R. Sánchez-Rivera Recently, a published, peer-reviewed article caused a great deal of controversy when it circulated among many academic Facebook pages such as Latinx…
by Andy Urban With high temperatures in the mid-60s, March 2, 2020 was a nice day to be outside in central New Jersey. That morning,…
Photo Credit: Jackie Rodriguez Vega By Mike Amezcua The police killing of George Floyd has sparked urban rebellions and demonstrations across hundreds of American cities. The accompanying looting and destruction…
Labadee, Production Photography, HD video, sound, 7 min 10 sec, 2017, Joiri Minaya Regarding cruise ships, the terrorism of tourism in the Caribbean, and the Western media’s summer 2019 discourse about “poisonings” at resorts in the Dominican Republic…
By Aaron S. Lecklider Like many of you, the Abusable Past wondered how the New York Times decided to publish Tom Cotton’s editorial advocating the…
Hong Kongers attend an election eve rally for Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen on January 10, 2020, holding a flag proclaiming the unofficial slogan of the Hong Kong protests ("Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times") and a poster that reads "Yesterday 228, Today Hong Kong", comparing the February 28th Massacre in Taiwan to Hong Kong's possible future after the end of "one country, two systems."
Photo by Catherine Chou.
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By Catherine Chou and Gina Anne Tam On May 21st 2020, after nearly a year of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the government of the…
The Radical History Review stands in solidarity with those across the United States and the world who are protesting against anti-Black police violence. As scholars…
Photo by Aren Aizura Compiled by the Abusable Past Collective The co-editors at the Abusable Past have compiled this list to provide readers with quick access to collected resources…