#Colonial

Ussama Makdisi

UssamaMakdisi

Teaching about self-determination this week. At the end of WWI, Woodrow Wilson spoke about "self-determination," though he never meant immediate emancipation of the colonized. So "advanced" Western powers invented "

vishnu ram

vishnur11972911

Tanjore Great TempleI have reimagined the big temple with the 2 tier maha mandapam with the use of existing photos. I always wondered how would the great temple looked in

Dr. Witchelle’s Flying Monkeys 🧙🏾‍♀️🐒

MARspidermonkey

Last night, I watched the @NatGeoChannel documentary #Jane—I wanted to see it for a while, but now that I have access to Disney+, it seemed a good time to catch

Dominique Day

dominiqus

An interview on our fact-finding mission to Belgium (translation in the comments). #WGEPAD #fightracism https://twitter.com/mondiaalnieuws/status/1095756783392641025 1/Dominique Day gives a preliminary report on the UN panel: They do not shun the

Philip Jamilla

pmjamilla

Our colonial education has reduced the study of José Rizal into memorizing dates and names—failing to critically look into the historical context of his time which shaped his ideas, and

AC Fick

acfick72

People who don’t follow you, and you don’t follow them, involving you in their grammatically messy psychodrama. And over 30 years the trope of interrogatory antagonism as suppression of the

Laura Seay

texasinafrica

This is by design! The Dora Milaje are partly modeled after the Mino women fighters of the Dahomey Kingdom (colonizers called them the Dahomey Amazons) in what's now Benin. The

darija freestyle

romiosini

what france cannot forgive its citizens of algerian descent - and by extension its citizens of maghrebi descent at large - is their refusal to remain subjugated, then and now.

Nodutdol | 노둣돌

nodutdol

Today we remember the Bandung Conference, the first large scale Afro-Asian conference which came to a close on this day in 1955. Twenty-nine independent nations across Africa, Asia, and the

Flint Dibble 🍖🏺📖

FlintDibble

Quick thread: If Instagram "vendors [selling human remains online] are clearly trying to mimic ‘museum’-like experiences" then the museum and heritage industry needs to change, like NOW/1https://twitter.com/Heritage_MDPI/status/124987953544

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

Advaidism

Remembering Udham Singh, who avenged the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by assassinating Michael O'Dwyer, and was hanged by the British in 1940.While in custody, he used the name Ram Mohammad Singh

Seth Frantzman

sfrantzman

Thread: I blocked two people last evening because I saw them discussing whether Palestinians should pursue "armed struggle"...I felt bad, but they aren't Palestinian, and I find it macabre for

manvir singh

mnvrsngh

“Guns, Germs, & Steel” starts with a New Guinean named Yali asking why Europeans have so much more 'cargo' than New Guineans. Yali comes across as a curious local. But

Gloriosa

Gloriosa1982

Okay so, does nobody else see it's an issue that one group of people labelled as sex workers, like this person, is able to net a good house like this,

a Red Chilean🇨🇱🇸🇾

aRedChilean

1/16Let's talk about decolonization and Cuba. The Cuba of today is not metaphysically seperate from its previous form. It was a result of the progressive side of Cuban history dominating

Nadifa Mohamed

thesailorsgirl

For those asking for a bio:Hudeidi was born in Berbera in 1928, one of twins, to a young mother & a police sergeant father. At 40 days old he was