colonialism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/25/2022
  

  The Forgotten Violence of the US-Philippines Relationship

  by Adrian De Leon

  By declaring a relationship of "friends, partners, and allies" between the United States and the Philippines, and embracing the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., the United States concealed its violent conquest of the islands and its ongoing support for authoritarian rule there. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/16/2022
  

  Natasha Lightfoot on the British Commonwealth's Future after Elizabeth

  Will other former British colonies follow the recent example of Barbados and dissociate from the postcolonial Commonwealth? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2022
  

  Mourn the Queen, Not the Empire

  by Maya Jasanoff

  As the head of the postwar British Commonwealth, the Queen symbolized the effort to put the brakes on the global wave of decolonization, including deadly and secret campaigns of state violence in Northern Ireland, Kenya, and elsewhere.

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  9/15/2022
  

  Benin Bronzes Have Final German Exhibition Before Repatriation

  "'The recognition of the colonial injustices and the subsequent return of the items “will continue to define our work in the future,' Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  9/12/2022
  

  On Climate, the British Monarchy Mortgaged the Planet's Future

  by Priya Satia

  The monarchy, as a cultural core of the British empire, papered over the separation and alienation among humans resulting from the conversion of the Earth to a set of exploitable commodities. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  9/12/2022
  

  Queen Not Innocent of Empire's Sins

  by Howard W. French

  "I bear no ill will toward her following her death. Her empire—and empires more generally—though is another matter."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/12/2022
  

  For Many Scholars, Queen's Legacy Inseparable from Colonialism

  Vanderbilt's Moses Ochonu and Wisconsin's Mou Banerjee argue that the Queen's passing calls attention to unfinished business of acknowledging the violence of the British Empire—violence the Queen's image helped to conceal. 

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• SOURCE: AlterNet
  9/10/2022
  

  Andrew Roberts Blows Up on MSNBC Over Queen's Link to Colonialism

  The British historian and host Ali Velshi butted heads over the mentioning of colonialism and its part in the late Queen's legacy. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  Stephen Aron's Work Examines Moments of Intercultural Peace in the West

  by James Thornton Harris

  Both triumphalist and revisionist histories of America's westward expansion emphasize violence, and disagree about whether to understand it with pride or guilt. But what can we make of the moments where understanding and accommodation temporarily prevailed? 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/16/2022
  

  Salman Rushdie Changed Everything

  by Siva Vaidhyanathan

  The novelist's creative brilliance and critical acclaim signaled a moment for south Asian people around the world to see themselves outside the frame of colonialism and to grapple with the subcontinent's ethnic and religious fissures. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  8/9/2022
  

  "Bridgerton" and Its Blind Spot for Colonialist History

  by Trishula Patel

  In nodding to contemporary British diversity by casting actors of color in roles originally written as "white," the program misses the bigger opportunity to examine the histories of colonialism that brought people of Indian and African descent to Britain during the Regency period. 

• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/4/2022
  

  It's Hard to Be God

  by Joshua Craze

  "One might think that becoming a god is a quick route to an easy life. The problem is that gods are beholden to their believers, and worshippers tend to have plans for their deities."

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• 7/24/2022
  

  The Thirty Meter Telescope Project Exemplifies Scientific Progress and Indigenous Dispossession

  by Marissa Gavin

  The narrative of progress inspired by a new astronomy project clashes with the ongoing reality of indigenous dispossession in the selection of Mauna Kea, sacred to native Hawaiians, as the telescope's site. 

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  6/25/2022
  

  The Belated Return of Lumumba's Tooth Shows the Tenacity of Colonialism

  "The only reason that can be offered for keeping a man’s tooth for 61 years knowing that it was obtained through torture and murder is that the cruelty is the point. Colonisation was, after all, a projection of power through cruelty, rationalised by pseudo-intellectual arguments about racial superiority and difference."

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  6/8/2022
  

  Belgian King Expresses "Deepest Regrets" for Congo Atrocities

  While calling Belgian colonial rule "unjustifiable and racist" King Philippe did not go so far as to issue an apology. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/6/2022
  

  Ongoing US Territorial Possessions Perpetuate Colonialism and Racism

  by Anders Bo Rasmussen

  While much has changed over a century, the basic question of equal treatment for citizens in American territories has essentially remained the same.

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• SOURCE: The Racket
  5/24/2022
  

  What's New and Not in the NYT Haiti Blockbuster

  by Jonathan M. Katz

  What can be taken away from the battle erupting between journalists and historians over the Times's blockbuster news event on Haiti's post-independence forced ransom? 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  

  Review Essay: The Bloody Business of the British Conquest of Nigeria

  by Adewale Maja-Pearce

  Self-serving stories of the civilizing mission of British Christianity paper over the brutality of colonialism. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/27/2022
  

  Palm Oil is Colonialism's Continuing Nightmare

  by Max Haiven

  The extraction and trade in palm oil in west Africa has been at the center of two centuries of exploitation and violence, which stands to get worse as the Ukraine war threatens the world supply of competing sunflower oil. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  4/10/2022
  

  Are Museums Ready to Reckon with Ill-Gotten Human Remains?

  The acquisition of many skeletal specimens by museums was entangled with the harvesting of tissues from the bodies of the socially marginalized.