1) Make sure that next presidents are not all white & all male. There were women presidents, 1 Latina, but don't know how many were black, the only ones I know are John Hope Franklin and it seems the last one who is a black historian was Thomas Holt https://en.wikipedia.org/.../American_Historical_Association …
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2) Hire nonwhite staff members in its high positions, the association headquarters are in Washington. Of the 20 staff members, there are only 2 black staff members who deal with membership.
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3) Make sure that panels reflect the diversity of topics studied by members. African history is particularly problematic. Glad to know that Akin Ogundiran will chair the program committee of the 2023 meeting.
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4) Plenary panels (by invitation) on slave trade featuring all-white speakers should not exist at the AHA like the one below of 2018 should not happen againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgE9EImpKeg …
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5) Black, Latino, indigenous, and Asian historians must be represented in the plenary panels, the ones that all people attend.
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6) Panels on non-US history topics must be filmed and featured on AHA TV, CSPAN, and on Youtube channel. It's unfair that those members of AHA working on non-US topics pay the same amount of money for membership but remain considered as members of second or third zone.
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7) CLAH multiple panels hold jointly with AHA must be filmed and featured on Youtube channel, CSpan etc.
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8) AHA can also organize panels to feature books of nonwhite historians and young historians and feature them in the program and on its other channels, as it is done with white senior historians.
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Replying to @analuciaraujo_
It would also be nice if they not platformed both-sides, “I am now going to say a documented public case of a WOC scholar getting Rape and death threats is not getting any threats and she is lying”, so I can support white fascist historian. That is something they can do.
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This is interesting, but I am not sure if I understand what you are saying?
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He published this after my very public white supremacist fascist attack (RFB wrote for Br*itbart and sees M*lo Y. as her best buddy). But apparently me pointing out that she is a white supremacist is an attack, rather than all those rape & death threats. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2017/medievalism-white-supremacy-and-the-historians-craft-a-response …
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @analuciaraujo_
I wrote about this in IHEhttps://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/08/30/scholar-describes-being-conditionally-accepted-medieval-studies-opinion …
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @analuciaraujo_
The piece's author spent years until I published this & had to "show receipts of my actual rape and death threats" to in multiple online spaces say I lied about my threats (even they were incredibly public and easy to find).It would be good if AHA did not defend violent fascists.
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