colonialism

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  12/17/2020
  

  French Senate Blocks Restitution of 27 Artifacts to Benin and Senegal in Dispute with National Assembly

  The bill under consideration would compel France to return artifacts plundered from Benin and Senegal in the 1890s. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/15/2020
  

  The World’s Most Important Body of Water

  by Daniel Yergin

  The author of a book on the dispute over control of the South China sea examines four critical decisionmakers whose actions shaped the present conflict. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/18/2020
  

  The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year

  “There was an event that happened in 1621,” Wampanoag historian Linda Coombs said. “But the whole story about what occurred on that first Thanksgiving was a myth created to make white people feel comfortable.” Native activists hope to disrupt the stories of Thanksgiving by questioning public history and by recovering indigenous food practices.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/12/2020
  

  The National Trust is under Attack Because it Cares about History, not Fantasy

  by Peter Mitchell

  Britain's historic preservation agency has become the target of conservative politicians who have interpreted the Trust's commissioning of a report evaluating the relationship of its projects to slavery as an attack on the nation's historical identity.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  11/5/2020
  

  The Racist Lady with the Lamp

  by Natalie Stake-Doucet

  "Nursing historiography is centered on whiteness. Even worse, nursing history revolves largely around a single white nurse: Florence Nightingale. This, unfortunately, doesn’t mean nurses understand who Nightingale was."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/26/2020
  

  Misremembering the British Empire

  Priya Satia's new book “Time’s Monster” joins a dense body of scholarship analyzing liberal justifications for empire. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/26/2020
  

  "Time's Monster" by Priya Satia Review – Living in the Past

  Time’s Monster is a book about history and empire. Not a straightforward history, but an account of how the discipline of history has itself enabled the process of colonisation, “making it ethically thinkable”.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/14/2020
  

  The Real Black History? The Government Wants To Ban It

  by Priyamvada Gopal

  Tory attacks on "victim narratives" in the history curriculum defend entrenched power and ignore the fact that Black British histories are about the power of protest and activism to make social change. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  10/7/2020
  

  How Bad History Feeds Far-Right Fantasies

  by Thomas Lecaque

  A fellow medievalist argues that Jeff Fynn-Paul failed to read or understand the historical literature before writing a controversial recent essay exculpating Europeans for mass death in the course of colonialism.

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• 10/4/2020
  

  Andrew Rotter's "Sensual Empires: Britain and America in India and the Philippines"

  by Shannon Bontrager

  Andrew Rotter extends recent work in sensory history to the study of imperialism, documenting how British and American colonialism depended on the connection between sensory experience and racial and nationalist ideology.

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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