colonialism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/27/2020
  

  Why New Mexico’s 1680 Pueblo Revolt Is Echoing in 2020 Protests

  Indigenous groups in the Southwest are imbuing their activism this year with commemorations of the 340-year-old Pueblo Revolt, one of Spain’s bloodiest defeats in its colonial empire.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/9/2020
  

  Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France: An Interview with Historian Robin Mitchell

  Robin Mitchell's book "Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France" examines how sexualized descriptions of Black women contributed to French racism.

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• SOURCE: KPBS
  9/6/2020
  

  ‘A Journey That We Have To Join Together’: 2 Dutch Women Confront Slavery’s Legacy

  Two Dutch women, one white and one Black, met through their shared ancestral connection to the slave trade in Suriname. They have produced an eight-part podcast to encourage the Dutch people to recognize the role slavery played in building the Netherlands. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/1/2020
  

  The History Of Racist Colonial Violence Can Help Us Understand Police Violence

  by Sarah Olutola

  Racial ideologies and practices of social control honed by colonial powers are present today in American police tactics and defenses of police abuse against communities of color. 

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• SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  8/24/2020
  

  A Call for Antiracist Action and Accountability in the US Nuclear Community

  The history of nuclear power and nuclear weapons has historically been entangled with the history of colonialism and global white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/18/2020
  

  Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’ and the Pitfalls of African Consciousness

  by Russell Rickford

  "Black is King" is neither radical nor fundamentally liberatory.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/19/2020
  

  We Can't Tell Kamala Harris' Story Without the British Empire. We Can't Tell America's Without It Either

  by Priya Satia

  As Kamala Harris vies for the Vice Presidency, a complete recounting of her formation requires recognizing her as both a quintessentially American politician—because of, not despite, her being a child of immigrants—and part of a global story of the former British empire.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/14/2020
  

  Settler Fantasies, Televised

  by Hannah Manshell

  The genre of house hunting and home improvement shows involve contestants claiming the prerogatives of owning property, which has historically been allotted to white people at the expense of the indigenous in several societies. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  7/28/2020
  

  Is It Time to Repatriate Africa’s Looted Art?

  Museums now face a moral reckoning over artifacts stolen by people who took colonial violence and racial superiority as a given. It is time to start having honest conversations about righting those wrongs.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/3/2020
  

  Statue of White Woman Holding Hatchet and Scalps Sparks Backlash in New England

  Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  When Fascist Aggression in Ethiopia Sparked a Movement of Black Solidarity

  by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  The Italo-Ethiopian War may remain an obscure historical event to many Americans. Yet it shocked millions into action and fueled a reckoning with institutionalized racism and fascism.

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• SOURCE: History Extra (BBC)
  7/29/2020
  

  Africa's Medieval Golden Age

  by François-Xavier Fauvelle

  During the Middle Ages, while Europe fought, traded, explored and evolved, Africa was a continent in darkness, 'without history' – or so the traditional western narrative runs. In fact, as François-Xavier Fauvelle reveals, it was a shining period in which great African cultures flourished.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7/27/2020
  

  Present Absences: A Century of Struggle in Palestine (Review)

  For Khalidi, the British mandate established two parallel realities in Palestine: an embryonic nation-building project for the Jewish minority and the continuation of colonial policy for the Arab majority, whose question of self-determination was left unaddressed.

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• SOURCE: WHYY
  7/24/2020
  

  Philadelphia Historical Commission Votes To Remove Marconi Plaza Christopher Columbus Statue

  Advocates for the statue's removal noted that Columbus has come to sybolize white supremacy, colonialism, and genocide and that there are better figures or stories that exemplify Italian American culture to celebrate.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/22/2020
  

  Learning From the Kariba Dam

  The history of the Kariba Dam is the story of a war over the past and the future of a river. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/27/2020
  

  Colonialism Made the Modern World. Let’s Remake It.

  by Adom Getachew

  What is “decolonization?” What the word means and what it requires have been contested for a century.

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• SOURCE: Barrons
  7/22/2020
  

  Row Over 'Misrepresentation' Of Slavery In UK Citizenship Test (Agence France Presse)

  Nearly 200 historians on Wednesday denounced what they said was the "misrepresentation of slavery and empire" in the history section of Britain's citizenship test, calling for it to be corrected.

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• SOURCE: The Times (London)
  7/23/2020
  

  Historians blast BBC for ‘unbalanced’ News At Ten report on Churchill

  Historians have criticised a BBC News report on Tuesday about Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine, which killed three million people in 1943 and 1944. The report arguably blamed Churchill's racism without considering other material factors that lead to 3 million deaths. 

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• SOURCE: Photographic Museum of Humanity
  7/22/2020
  

  When Monuments Become the Narrative (review)

  "Leopold’s Legacy" by Oliver Leu is the most timely of books. It details how Belgian monuments to empire sustain narratives that abdicate responsibility, divert blame, and ultimately deny Belgium’s role in the mutilation and murder of millions of people.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2020
  

  It is Time to Reconsider the Global Legacy of July 4, 1776

  by Elizabeth Kolsky

  American independence unleashed a hemispheric conquest by the United States and a renewed commitment to empire by Great Britain. Both projects relied on racism, violence, and the devaluing of black and indigenous lives.