Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 8, 2024.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 APSA awards ! Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law Recipient: Lucien Ferguson, Boston College Law School Title: “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights” Harold D.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Often, those in positions of power try to sustain and justify their hold by controlling the narrative: They may highlight or disappear certain stories, facts, histories, or outcomes. In June 2024, our editorial team put out a call for submissions of anthropological poems of resistance, refusal, and wayfinding.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 25, 2024

Chicago students organized “peace talks” at high schools across the city in the wake of a walkout protest demanding a ceasefire to the war in Gaza in January 2024. Read More People’s History of Student Activism Denver police and a crowd of about 300 people, many of them students, clash on the steps of West High School on March 20, 1969.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In February 2024, a man walked by Gaza City’s Islamic University, which was destroyed by Israeli military strikes. Unfortunately, Hage’s experience is far from unique right now. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

On March 6, 2024 , I woke up to the horrific news that the Israeli military had bombed the building of the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children (ASDC) in Gaza City, part of the ongoing war on Gaza that began last October.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. Independence or Catastrophe?

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