#Colonial

Savarkar, I refuse to call him veer because thats a title he gave himself. If he is ‘Veer’ Savarkar, i am Dr. shaham. He was a freedom fighter in the
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105 yrs ago today, the Easter Rising started in Dublin.Along with Ghadar and Petrograd, it opened a global revolutionary wave that included workers' uprisings, land seizures and anti-colonial struggles and
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Read 2 articles today: one on "postcolonial" Wales and one on Welsh slave owners in the Caribbean. The second essay made the former, describing Wales as a "postcolonial" country absolutely
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1. NDEBELE IDENTITY: Who are the Ndebele of Zimbabwe? A very long thread...Many people struggle with defining the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe. Are Ndebeles a tribe, a nation, Khumalos, South
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This has got to be the most unintentionally hilarious one ever :)) utter innocence on three counts:a) whether a stable form of Bali iconography exists (it doesn't)b) how a "Christian
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as the 70th anniversary of the korean war approaches, i want to dispel some common myths about it, namely:-the north started it-the US "liberated" the south from "tyranny"-the war is
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Lumbee history does not start or end with what white people or other Natives (especially ones who have not done research outside what their racist ass elders say) Just because
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BREAKING: Chadwick Boseman — star of 'Black Panther' — has passed away from colon cancer at age 43. His family confirmed the news on Twitter Friday night, saying “he died
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Fave anecdote from “Colonial Project, National Game” by Andrew Morris was that at least initially with foreign players joining the CPBL, teams would give them Chinese names that quickly evolved
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The curious history of TVET in Kenya. A thread.You have to go way way back to the end of feudalism and beginning of capitalism in Europe.The way to get workers
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Pour capitaliser sur le dos des Noir.e.s, y’a du monde. À commencer par les rédactions et maisons d’édition de gôôôche. Mais pour nous employer en CDI, nous accorder des contrats
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Michael Buerk Andrew Doyle Nesrine Malik Mona Siddiqui & Tim Stanley didn't know I was still on the call after we recorded #MoralMaze @BBCRadio4 Here are quotes & approximations of
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A Primer/Disclaimer to the term "Igorot"Arguments presented here are not just mine but integrates those from relevant scholars in the field. References, links, photographic credits will be posted at the
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Infinitely more interested in collective organising and collective politics than any discussions around collective language. BAME, BIPOC, POC, whatever... But, if we really want collective language it should start from
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Shall we remove Linnaeus' statue in front of the Swedish Library? Linnaeus is known for his biological taxonomy. He also classified "races". Can we call it the "racism of his
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I have (white) friends on the east coast. I have had a few “friend”s ask for my “opinion” on the situation. Many have barely messaged me in the past few
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