By Tahereh Aghdasifar, Arash Davari, Alexander Jabbari, Amira Jarmakani, and Golnar Nikpour Note: We began work on this syllabus in 2023 and did not have…
By Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Universities, as we have argued in our collective writing on an abolitionist approach to the study…
Women preparing a kolam in Thulasendrapuram, Tamil Nadu (the home village of Kamala Harris' maternal grandfather) in 2020. Aijaz Raha via the AP 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…
Promotional material for the 2022 National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Source: Congressional Equality Caucus. 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…
Image: Solomon Brager, "Queer & Trans Youth, You Are Loved," artwork as displayed in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (photograph by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, UIUC) By Toby Beauchamp, Sawyer K. Kemp, Ava L.J. Kim, Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and Mimi Thi Nguyen Trans studies today is a vibrant, rapidly expanding field…
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"Spraying in the Park" (from "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by George Seurat) One example of the "pepper-spraying cop" meme that became ubiquitous after the 2011 incident at UC-Davis that involved a campus police officer pepper-spraying a group of students sitting down in a line as part of an Occupy protest.
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By Yalile J. Suriel Despite their current presence at nearly two-thirds of colleges and universities, campus police departments failed to garner much scholarly attention from…
Veterans of the anti-colonialist war against Spain (1863-1865) at a dinner organized by feminist educator Ercilia Pepín (third in the left row) in 1927. Source: revista Blanco y Negro. By Amaury Rodríguez Since the worldwide political upheavals of the 1960s, Caribbean and Latin American social scientists have expanded the production of people’s history or…
Honolulu Chinatown Fire of 1900. Photo by Gabriel Bertram Bellinghausen, via wikicommons By Michael G. Vann As individuals around the world faced unprecedented government ordered lockdowns to flatten the curve of spread of COVID-19, many of us…
a locked reading room at the National Archives of India Records Centre, Puducherry (Photo by Jecca Namakkal) By Sneha Krishnan Writing in the Atlantic in 1945, Vannevar Bush, who headed the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II,…