Youth Franchise: The Forgotten Sixties Movement
January 20, 2022
An essay by Jennifer Frost, author of “Let Us Vote!”: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment. Absent from popular memory and most scholarly histories of the 1960s is the… READ MORE
Category: Politics
Rethinking Police Ethics
August 12, 2021
The challenge for police and democratic institutions that oversee them is how to transform policing so that the advancement of antiracist goals is the norm rather than the exception. For police ethics to contribute to that task, we must rethink its boundaries.
From Hopper’s Hollywood to Trump’s America
July 12, 2021
—Jennifer Frost
In this feature from Dilettante Army, learn how Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper’s work fits into a lineage of American conservatism.
Misogynoir and Kamala Harris
November 20, 2020
—Moya Bailey
Misogynoir is not simply the racism that Black women encounter, nor is it the misogyny Black women negotiate; it is the uniquely synergistic force of these two oppressions amalgamating into something more harmful than its parts.
Faith and Politics in America, What came First?
November 18, 2020
Historian David E. Settje talks about the gray area between politics and religion in America
The New US: While Calling Out Trump White Women
November 16, 2020
—Zillah Eisenstein
Voters of color massively increased their share of the voting public and many of them are militantly anti-racist. Get used to this new US.
Grace Holmes Carlson, the woman who helped set the stage for VP-Elect Kamala Harris
November 10, 2020
Historian Donna T. Haverty-Stacke discusses one of the women who paved the way for VP-Elect Kamala Harris’ historic win
International Day of Democracy: A Reading List
September 15, 2020
In these books, scholars work across the world to evaluate democracy’s past, present and future, and to discover ways democracy can be reinvigorated in the 21st century.
Kamala Harris and the Political Power of Black Sororities (and Fraternities)
August 24, 2020
—Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey
Harris’s acknowledgment of these organizations during her acceptance speech served—knowingly or unknowingly—as an effective way to mobilize the political power of their college and alumni members.
Gearing up for the Election: An eBook Special
July 13, 2020
With the Presidential election rapidly approaching, we’re spending the summer reading up on political issues and election history. Get geared up for the election this summer with our recommended reading,… READ MORE
Six Classics of Queer Literature