Graffiti on a stretch of border fencing between the US and Mexico calls for an end to the incarceration of immigrants. Courtesy of Christoph Buchel/Creative Commons. By María Cristina García, Adam Goodman, Erika Lee, Maddalena Marinari, and Evan Taparata *Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Abusable Past's "The Border…
Lizzie Bordern directs Born in Flames, 1983. By Ryan Murphy A METHODOLOGY FOR U.S. LABOR HISTORY IN THE 21st CENTURY Labor history is a field with new relevance in an era of…
Accusing Cow Compiled by Gabriel N. Rosenberg Animal Studies queries the relationship between nonhuman animals (or “animals”) and human social orders. It is an interdisciplinary field, encompassing…
Wheatpaste poster created by Oaxacan street artist Yescka. https://guerilla-art.mx/tag/ayotzinapa/ Compiled by Fernando Herrera Calderón In September 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College, a school designed to train rural teachers in Mexico,…
“Stop Police Killings,” CAPA Papers, Southern California Library From 2015 to 2018, historians of policing Max Felker-Kantor and Simon Balto lived within a mile of each other in Indianapolis. At the time, both…
White Night Riots flier, 1979 Compiled by Emily K. Hobson Interest in queer history and queer politics have grown exponentially in recent years. Among students especially, such attention has been…
Our Bodies Our Rights // art by Meredith Stern (justseeds) Compiled by Pam Butler In recent months, US state-level policymakers have proposed and passed increasingly severe restrictions on abortion access, with the end goal of…
Photo Credit: Andrew Rittenburg, Wheeler Occupation, November 20, 2009. Compiled by Eli Meyerhoff and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein This microsyllabus eschews some of the more canonical texts in the burgeoning field of critical university studies -…
Image courtesy of Natalie Robles, http://www.natalierobles.com Compiled by Yuridia Ramírez Immigration has become one of the most politically and socially activating points of discussion in recent years. The US South has…
Compiled by Andrew Cornell There was a period, about a decade ago, in the years surrounding Occupy Wall Street, when a variety of commentators asserted…