colonialism

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/5/2020
  

  There’s a Complex History of Skin Lighteners in Africa and Beyond

  by Lynn M. Thomas

  The politics of skin colour in South Africa have been importantly shaped by the history of white supremacy and institutions of racial slavery, colonialism, and segregation. My book examines that history.

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• 2/9/20
  

  The Making of a Periphery

  by Ulbe Bosma

  How did the once-prosperous islands of Southeast Asia transform into a “peripheral” region?

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  12/11/19
  

  Worcestershire Sauce and the Geographies of Empire

  by Julia Fine

  The complex origin of Worcestershire sauce reveals the ways that imperial ideals and aspirations — both in Britain and the colonies — structured not only British food habits, but also the ways in which companies presented such foods to the public.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/9/19
  

  Risk rooted in colonial era weighs on Bahamas’ efforts to rebuild after Hurricane Dorian

  by Jason von Meding, David O. Prevatt, and Ksenia Chmutina

  The historical context of injustice, discrimination and inequality – experienced through social structures that cause harm to certain people – is often missing. This context informs today’s risk.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/10/19
  

  Panama celebrates its black Christ, part of protest against colonialism and slavery

  by S. Kyle Johnson

  Panama’s “Festival del Cristo Negro,” the festival of the “Black Christ,” is an important religious holiday for local Catholics. It honors a dark, life-sized wooden statue of Jesus, “Cristo Negro” – also known as “El Nazaraeno,” or “The Nazarene.”

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• SOURCE: History.com
  10/02/2019
  

  When Gandhi’s Salt March Rattled British Colonial Rule

  by Evan Andrews

  In March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and his followers set off on a brisk 241-mile march to the Arabian Sea town of Dandi to lay Indian claim to the nation's own salt.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  September 12, 2019
  

  William Dalrymple’s Case Study: “The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire”

  by Ian Morris

  Every M.B.A. program includes classes on business ethics. William Dalrymple’s superb account of Britain’s East India Company shows why: “The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire” is a case study in what can go wrong when corporate leaders lack a sense of decency.

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• 9/15/19
  

  How the Kikotan Massacre Prepared the Ground for the Arrival of the First Africans in 1619

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  English (and ultimately, United States) colonialism was (and is) built not only with the labor of stolen bodies from Africa, but the stolen lands of Native Americans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/9/19
  

  How Africa is transforming the Catholic Church

  by Elizabeth A. Foster

  Pope Francis’s visit to Africa highlights the growing trend toward decolonizing Catholicism

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• 5/2/19
  

  The Template for the Holocaust- Germany's African Genocide

  by David Carlin

  In the 20th Century’s first genocide, Imperial Germany’s campaign of annihilation provided precedents for the racial ideologies and exterminatory tactics of the Holocaust. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/4/19
  

  Belgium Apologizes for Kidnapping Children From African Colonies

  Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium delivered a speech last Thursday apologizing for the country’s actions toward mixed-race children in Central Africa.

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• SOURCE: Science Magazine
  3/27/19
  

  Countries demand their fossils back, forcing natural history museums to confront their past

  The story of Giraffatitan's discovery in eastern Africa long ignored the crimes of German colonialism and the scientific contributions of local residents.  

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• 3/24/19
  

  The Elon Musk of Global Crime and European Colonialism in Africa

  by Elaine Shannon

  Paul LeRoux has to be seen in the context of the history of southern Africa, a rapacious, swash-buckling profiteer trading in guns, drugs, gold, timber, false documents and human life.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/19
  

  Woodrow Wilson and ‘the Ugliest of Treacheries’

  by Erez Manela

  After World War I, America was supposed to lead the fight against colonialism. What happened?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/31/19
  

  European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

  by Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis

  This new study clarifies the size of pre-Columbian populations and their impact on their environment.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  Accessed 1/4/19
  

  Historian Daniel Immerwahr Explores What America’s Territories Reveal About American History

  In “How to Hide an Empire,” Daniel Immerwahr explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10-11-17
  

  Jeremy Corbyn vows to increase teaching of black history in schools

  Labour leader also wants greater focus on history of British empire and colonialism.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-13-18
  

  France’s Macron admits to military’s systematic use of torture in Algeria war

  France will formally acknowledge the French military’s systemic use of torture in the Algerian War in the 1950s and 1960s, an unprecedented step forward in grappling with its long-suppressed legacy of colonial crimes.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-11-18
  

  The Big Hole in Germany’s Nazi Reckoning? Its Colonial History

  Germany has yet to come to terms with its violent colonial legacy in Africa, which laid the groundwork for Nazi atrocities, historians and activists say.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-3-18
  

  Genocide hoax tests ethics of academic publishing

  by Reuben Rose-Redwood

  An academic journal published a controversial article advocating for colonialism last fall. Would academic journals also publish an outrageous article advocating for genocide?