“While characters like Jab-Jab are used as marketing devices, carnival in Grenada illustrates how Black cultural performance can function as a response to colonial and post-colonial oppression. Althou...

“One need not look outside the United States for models of oppression and resistance. Instead, strategies for surviving fascist conditions have been developed and refined by Black people for centuries...

“Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented w...

“In providing a compelling microhistorical lens into the intersections of enslavement, marriage, Christianity, and women’s subjectivity, the Mary-Hylas case exemplifies the layered experiences of Blac...

“A political administration dedicated to pretending there is no room for complexity or self-discovery in people’s experiences of gender must erase the stories providing evidence to the contrary.”&nbsp...

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“While Northern slavery does not get as much coverage in historical remembrance, it was still significant. Census records note that nearly 14% of New York's population were slaveholders in 1790, amoun...

Inside the white-walled, vitrine-filled museum, it is easy to assume that the objects within it neutrally represent history’s many turns. Conservation shapes how those objects are preserved, displ...

Inside the white-walled, vitrine-filled museum, it is easy to assume that the objects within it neutrally represent history’s many turns. Conservation shapes how those objects are preserved, displ...

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The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is co-sponsoring a summer internship with Insurrect! The stipend for the internship is $3,000. This internship is open ...

Transness is a theory of change, of futurity. As trans people, we reject pre-written narratives to build more livable futures. Maybe this is why transsexuality is a recurring trope in science fictio...

In the summer of 1990, the spirit-name Two-Spirit was gifted to the growing community of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer Indigenous people of North America. In addition to giving a nam...

How might college instructors introduce students to disabled people in an earlier America who expressed negative views about disability? How can we discuss ableism and internalized ableism in the cl...

Opponents of ‘Affirmative Action’ frame the policy as something that is given, defining it as an unfair advantage extended to the undeserving. For example, Roger Clegg, former president and gene...

Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona, first published in 1884, was initially met with mixed reviews by readers of the time. The novel is set after the Mexican-American War throughout the state of Californi...

This roundtable includes reflections from four scholars who presented on a panel, “Mutual Aid in Early America” at the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Biannual Meeting in June 2023, chaired ...