colonialism 
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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.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/11/2022
Texas's Anti-Transgender Policies Erase the State's Indigenous Transgender History
by Gregory D. Smithers
The prominent role of what would now be called transgender individuals in indigenous societies in Texas was part of the justification Europeans claimed to colonize the land; students compelled to learn Texas history in school could learn a much more inclusive set of stories.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
3/11/2022
We're Talking about Climate Change with Outdated Colonial Language
by Priya Satia
The dominant climate activist theme of sacrificing in the present to protect the future is rooted in the intellectual history of economics which has driven the profligate consumption and gross inequality that threatens the planet.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
3/1/2022
Review: The Afterlife of Black Hawk
by David Roediger
A suppressed history of conquest and expulsion pervades the state of Illinois; A new book seeks to recover it.
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2/27/2022
Excerpt: George Brown and Firestone's Liberian Empire of Rubber
by Gregg Mitman
The African American intellectual George Brown confronts the brutality of Firestone's rubber plantation empire in Liberia in an excerpt from a new history of the company.
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SOURCE: Substack
2/24/2022
We, The Abuser State
by Jules Gill-Peterson
Texas's announcement of a policy defining some support for transgender youth as "child abuse" echoes the abuses of colonial authorities on gendered minority groups.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
1/10/2022
The Reparations Fight Must Include Costs of Climate Change
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
The movement for reparations should be informed by the broader politics of anticolonial liberation struggles which sought not just to transfer resources but to raise new questions about the basic organiation of societies on a global scale.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
12/21/2021
Tyler Stovall Was a Groundbreaking Historian of Modern France, Colonialism, Race and Empire
by Michael G. Vann
"Tyler Stovall should be remembered as a scholar who firmly believed that the writing and teaching of history was a political act. Throughout his vibrant career, he used pathbreaking research, critical analysis, and engaging lectures as weapons in the fight for social justice."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/6/2021
What are Frantz Fanon's Lessons for Today?
by Pankaj Mishra
Taken at the moment of the Algerian fight for independence and other colonial liberation movements, "The Wretched of the Earth" was first seen as a beacon of liberatory thought. A new edition frames the ambivalences in Fanon's work on freedom.
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SOURCE: Times Higher Education
11/25/2021
David Olusoga: Support Historians in Culture War Crosshairs
“These new history wars have the warped logic of a witch trial; their aim is to convince people that they are being oppressed by the irrefutable facts of their own national histories, such as slavery in America, or the British Empire,” University of Manchester historian David Olusoga said.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/28/2021
Are Native Land Acknowledgments Empty Gestures?
by Graeme Wood
Too often, says Atlantic writer Graeme Wood, the rote ackowledgment by a speaker that an event is taking place on land historically occupied by an indigenous people is an empty gesture that short-circuits discussion of Native demands.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
11/28/2021
Utopia’s Settler Colonialism Problem
by Jessica Namakkal
The commune movements of the 1960s counterculture were organized around a number of pernicious assumptions about indigenous people and the prerogatives of whites to settle and reorganize land.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/29/2021
Barbados Declares Republic, Rejects Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State
Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced last year that the nation of 300,000 would become a republic by Tuesday, the 55th anniversary of its independence.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/12/2021
New Translations Give Indigenous Perspective on Brazilian Colonization
The Potiguara people split their alliances between the Dutch and Portuguese in 1645; the letters show the consequences of the split and the internal politics of the indigenous nation.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
11/12/2021
The Last Emperor of Mexico (Review)
As the younger brother of the Austrian emperor, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian was a perfect figurehead for Napoleon III of France's efforts to create a puppet regime in Mexico. Things didn't go the way he hoped.
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