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Why History Lessons Are So Threatening to Those with Power Chana Teeger (Jul 24, 2024)

Erasure and denial of the past are not the only ways to suppress historical claims and reproduce privilege. Chana Teeger's research in two racially diverse South African schools shows how the past can be recalled while its legacies are ignored.

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Why History Lessons Are So Threatening to Those with Power

Chana Teeger

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Michiko Suzuki on Decentering the Western Humanitarian Movement: Japanese Indigenous Humanitarianism (Jindō) (Jul 17, 2024)

In this Q&A, Michiko Suzuki’s discusses Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire. The book is the first English written research monograph about the history of the Japanese Red Cross movement.

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Michiko Suzuki on Decentering the Western Humanitarian Movement:

Japanese Indigenous Humanitarianism (Jindō)

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An Impossible Friendship and the Possibilities of Friendship in Israel/Palestine Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (Jul 10, 2024)

An Impossible Friendship invites us to glimpse alternative possibilities within and alongside the fraught history of Israel/Palestine.

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An Impossible Friendship and the Possibilities of Friendship in Israel/Palestine

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

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Technology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later G. Pascal Zachary (Jun 19, 2024)

On his death fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush was celebrated with a page one obituary in the New York Times. He died quietly in his home in the late hours of June 29, and his passing was met with the...

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Technology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later

G. Pascal Zachary

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Beyond Repair: The Psychic Life of Reparation Carolyn Laubender (Jun 12, 2024)

Ten years ago, on June 15, 2014, Ta-Nishi Coates published his watershed Atlantic article, “The Case for Reparations.” An immediate cultural flashpoint, Coates’s piece sought to legitimize the demand for racial reparation in the contemporary United States by documenting how...

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Beyond Repair:

The Psychic Life of Reparation

Carolyn Laubender

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