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‘All Men are Created Equal’? Race and the Declaration of Independence in American Museums
Tom Smith (@TomEtesonSmith) The Declaration of Independence, approved on 4 July 1776 by the thirteen colonies which were about to form the United States of America, has returned to the headlines recently after a parchment copy of the iconic document, only the second known to exist, was discovered in the somewhat unlikely surroundings of the…
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Build The Wall?: The Perspective of an American in the Philippines
By Tom Smith (@TomEtesonSmith) Donald Trump’s proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico is back in the news, this time as debates over how the wall is to be funded, and over the issue of immigration more broadly speaking, played a role in prompting a U.S. government shutdown. While Trump’s chief of staff,…
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Angela Davis in conversation: legacies, lessons and reflections on resistance, justice and hope
By Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) and Aoife O’Leary McNeice (@aolmcn) We were both lucky enough to attend two events with the revered black communist scholar and activist Professor Angela Davis in March and April. The first was held at the Southbank Centre in London for International Women’s Day as part of the Women of the World festival with the…
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Twilight of the Idols: The Critical Race Theory Scare and the Collapsing Dream of a Colour-Blind America
By Thomas Cryer As the Republican campaign against critical race theory accelerated in 2021, America’s culture wars descended into guerrilla skirmishes, empowering private actors to wage the Democratic-Republican struggle within local school boards across America. By November, nine states passed deliberately vague laws stamped as ‘anti-CRT’, prohibiting dialogue about America’s increasingly apparent racial inequities in…
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