#Colonial

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

We all know that Southern India is about 40% richer than the Indian average in PCI, while UP / BIhar are about 50% poorer than the Indian average. But when

Naomi O'Leary

NaomiOhReally

Native Americans raised a huge amount in famine relief for Ireland at a time when they had very little. It's time for is to come through for them now.https://twitter.com/YazzieSays/status/1256444930639052800 Just

Anti Imperialist Action Ireland

AIAIreland

Contrary to the lies of Free State Nationalists and Fascists in Ireland, Irish Republicanism has a long and proud history of internationalismPictured below Cork Republicans protesting an American warship in

Alishah The Human

AlishahTheHuman

THREAD ON EUROCENTRIC VS. AFROCENTRIC BEAUTY STANDARDS What does it mean to have "eurocentric features"? Eurocentric means "things that are CENTERED around EUROPEAN people/ideals" it does NOT mean "things that

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

@drdanisanchez tweeting for @tweetistorian about WWIII in Africa again. We are finally going to talk about getting drunk in WWII Free French Africa. YAY! Stick around and I'll give you

Darren Chetty

rapclassroom

"Historical fiction aimed at children, and often relating to National Curriculum History topics, appears to be growing in popularity. There is a challenge to make the children’s novel – often

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wikanghimagsik

Are Filipinos Malay?: A Thread As we all know, race is a social construct. There’s actually more genetic diversity *within* races than between them. If you don’t agree or

Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🇳🇱 🥪

CliveWismayer

PART TWO of my twitter book. For PART ONE see the link.A few days after the dinner, President Xi tapped on my door. He wanted to know whether I would

Malik Khurram Khan Dehwar

KhurramDehwar

A passion piece for me, tracing the origins of #Pakistan #Turkiye brotherhood.Nowadays, when public affinity for #Turkish TvShow #ErtugrulGhazi is the rage in #Pakistan.I’ve attempted to trace the historical events

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Thread with excerpts from “That Desert is Our Country: Tuareg Rebellions and Competing Nationalisms in Contemporary Mali (1946-1996)” by Baz Lecocq Tuareg call themselves “Kel Tamasheq” which means “the people

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

Lots of BS to unpack here, but I'll start with: IF you think that *the modern West* is the finest society ever created, AND you think *the modern West* is

Dr. Green, I'm a linguist doctor what what

caitlinmoriah

this morning after posting an article disparaging fellow linguists for our paper about his practice of disparaging linguists, Pinker retweets this with his own comment, guess what, disparaging linguists Let's

Carly Silver

CarlyASilver

Thrilled to tune into this lecture @Harvard lecture on Egypt and Nubia as African civilizations and historic whitewashing in racist approaches to Egypt Herodotus/Hecateus noted how geography (Nile, desert) individuated

Kovid

kxvid

There’s only one man I hate in this world and that’s Max Müller. The one responsible for singlehandedly destroying Hindu holy scriptures and texts. The German scholar who was established

thaoworra

thaoworra

Thoughts on organizing #Folklore collections in #SoutheastAsia or #SEAFolklore It takes a lot of work to find someone who has a number of traditional stories & identifying those that are

MichaelJRowley

MichaelJRowley3

There's a certain uneasiness when you see something like this, someone from a colonised country, vociferously advocating for re-colonisation, adamantly indicating a despicable level of self-hatred.But this behaviour is common