#Orientalist

Dr Margaret Maitland

eloquentpeasant

Important critique by @photograph_tut of yet another in a long-line of admiring histories of Egyptology’s “golden age” (aka colonial era), improving on the book with a miniature history that masterfully

Daniel Alan Bey

dbey85

1) Why so little focus on China's more than impressive community response to #COVID19 in the English-speaking media? Multiple reasons, but here's a few thoughts as to why this might

qp🐀 @ me in acnh giveaways

the_sick_rose

tom nook: don't like. he's a landlord and he forced me to do manual labor for him. i dont care that reggie said he's a mascot now and they gave

Jeppe Mulich

jmulich

I never expected wet markets to be the talk of the day, but here we are, I guess. In case you're not familiar with the term, wet market originated in

Tarek Younis

Tarek_Younis_

[thread] Following the racist-letter-in-BPS fiasco, I just wanted to remind ppl that there's no reason for qualified psychologists to NOT be racist. Therapy is not an apolitical space, and psychologists

Hilary Agro

hilaryagro

This is a good question, so I'm going to write a short thread about the lens that anthropologists work from. We try to combine a radical ethical awareness of what's

Ryan Lowe

ryvnlovve

In 1974, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé bought Dar Es Saada, “the House of Happiness in Serenity”, in Marrakech. Their friend Bill Willis was entrusted with the interior decoration.

Alicia Strong

AliciaInKosovo

Are Albanians white? A thread: Let’s go back to the basic: what is race? Race is a socio-historical construct. You cannot be biologically or genetically any race. Racial meaning constantly

David Reaboi

davereaboi

A little bit about this phenomenon and why it happens (thread)https://www.foxnews.com/us/white-gwu-history-professor-lied-being-black Used to be that if you really admired or were interested in another culture, you were encouraged to explor

Sajjad Rizvi

mullasadra

René Guénon (1886-1951) was as I mentioned recently perhaps the most prominent #traditionalist of the 20thC - a thread on him 1/ Starting from his interests in #traditionalist Catholic circles,

The Shitposter Assassinated

julie_neuhouser

Lots of orientalist takes about why the animation industry in Japan ended up being so much more interesting but really it comes down to: there was a historic strike at

Yun Jiang

yun_aus

Reading Stranded Nation by David Walker made me realise that my (lack of) knowledge in Australian history has led to a big gap in my understanding of the current debates

王泉明 Ming Ong

chuanming_

If this pandemic has revealed anything it's that the Netherlands finds itself in the stranglehold of a neoliberal politics of indifference: towards the immense loss of life, the crushing pressure

ameṛṛuki

amerruki

What’s with Afrocentrists and appropriating history ? The Moors were NOT “black”. Although there are dark skinned Berbers in the south of our region, Berbers were described as whiter than

Awanish Kumar

awanishkumar86

Today is the 193rd birth anniversary of Mahatma Jotirao Phule, born on this day in 1827 in Pune. Jotiba Phule was the father of Indian

Yousef Munayyer

YousefMunayyer

C'mon @JoyAnnReid, this aint it.https://twitter.com/ZahraBilloo/status/1300872605067481089 So, let's talk about this a bit because this is a moment lots of people can learn from and an all too common trend in