CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. Political Imprisonments and Confinements This issue of Radical History Review explores states’ uses of criminalization and imprisonment to silence critical voices and maintain structures of authority. Features: Orisami Burton examines the US government’s counterinsurgency strategy against Black prisoners in the United States in the 1970s. Kathleen Alfin details how the US Army encamped Liberian women for the sexual satisfaction of male GIs during the Second World War. Islamist forces in Turkey, Rustem Ertug Altinay argues, made an icon of a rightwing nationalist in order to oppose secular Turks. […]
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Memory Over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials and Intangible Heritage Issue number 152 (May 2025) Abstract Deadline: August 1, 2023 Co-Edited by Bonita Bennett, Bonny Ibhawoh, Alex Lichtenstein, and Daniel Walkowitz From the removal of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town, to the toppling of Confederate monuments across the American South, to the dumping of Edward Colston into Bristol harbor, we have recently witnessed profound challenges to the embodiment of national mythmaking in public memorials. Additionally, tearing down old markers of historical memory has been accompanied by the erection of new ones. Globally, popular and grassroots initiatives have rethought statuary, […]