#Colonial

Obsidian

MyMelaninisFire

African Americans really do not understand how LITTLE their struggle for Civil Rights against the American Government has to do with the INDEPENDENCE struggles of the rest of Diaspora and

Col. Lateral

offbalancetweet

Have heard a couple of landlords that I know say “the tenants will end up having a warmer house than me!” … and it’s like, if you can’t afford to

Gimba Kakanda

gimbakakanda

I remember being asked by a high school student in New Orleans, and that instantly made me realize what the prosperity of Africa meant to her, and other African-Americans. After

Yoav Litvin

nookyelur

Was “Jewish supremacy” responsible for the events in #AlAqsaMosque tonight? Of course not. It was Zionist white supremacy and settler colonialism. Those who continue using this jargon wittingly (LibZios) and

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hi from @_SimonLeese. This week I’ll be tweeting about Arabic literature and multilingualism in 18th/19th century North India. I’m interested in how Arabic writers imagine their place in a larger

𓋹 Roosevelt Terriers🌟🌟🌟 𓋹

RTerriers

Pine Tree FlagThe Tree Flag (or Appeal to Heaven Flag) was one of the flags used during the American Revolution. The flag, featuring a pine tree with the motto "An Appeal to God" or,

Bwesigye

bwesigye

Idi Amin and renaming roads and landmarks: A Short thread Imperialists renamed lakes Rutazingye and Mwitazigye as Edward (Henry Morton Stanley - 1888) and Albert (Samuel Baker - 1864). Amin

Charlotte Minsky

extrasolarchar

Many months ago, I promised a friend a tweetstorm on my senior thesis, so here it is, long overdue -Settler Colonialism and the Making of the Lick Observatory, 1846-1919: a

E. Vanessa Bethel

evanessabethel

So, someone on FB commented on a post made by someone I know, won’t get into it all, but this person said that when she was a child the majority

Qiao Collective

qiaocollective

If you're a "leftist" yet find yourself aligned with the entire Western world in attacking China and in opposition to the global south including Cuba, Venezuela, the DPRK, & Iran—all

Abdul Mu'izz

myuizzu

Academic Thread: "Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya" by Donna J. Amoroso –– This work argues that the British colonial power utilised and reinvented

Malini Ranganathan

maliniranga

One shortfall of Wilkerson's "Caste" is a serious engagement with the historical geographies of capitalism: how, in distinct but also related ways, capitalism in both India and the U.S. is

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

#HistoryKeThread: The Handshake In KanoWe know that the Uganda Railway was from 1896 called so because Kisumu, which was the destined railhead, was part of Uganda. Even as part of

✨ Dean Tāne ✨

Maccadaynu

Tiki and Tūtānekai’s Forgotten Symphony This is gonna be a thread as I'm so proud of how this turned out! I've wanted to draw this for years so wanna

daanis 🔥👊🏽💃🏽

gindaanis

This is not how anti-racism works. Notice the inequity. Look for the policy/practice/assumptions that exacerbate it.Confront the shit out of it. That means doing it internally as well, we're raised

Rakesh Thiyyan

ByRakeshSimha

William Dalrymple is a habitual liar who suffers from a colonial mindset. He twists the story of a Hindu girl kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam as voluntary acceptance of