Mon 8.05.13 | Robin Kelley on Aimé Césaire
Colonialism in both its traditional and contemporary versions is not just about power and coercion: it's about how the "other" is thought and talked about. Aimé Césaire took a radical anticolonial...
View ArticleTues 8.13.13 | What Empire Ruins
We can go visit imperial ruins, but there many things that empire has ruined, and that it continues to debase and degrade. What should we know about processes of ruination that afflict people and...
View ArticleTues 10.22.13 | What Missionaries Provoked
Christian missionaries operating in foreign lands did convert many people, but their activities, asserts Heather Sharkey, were also intrinsically political. Sharkey describes how missionaries provoked...
View ArticleWed 10.30.13 | The Multiple Meanings of "Latino"
To say that there are 50 million Latinos in the US is to suggest that the category of "Latino" is clear-cut and straightforward. But is that true? Tomas Almaguer highlights the ambiguities; he also...
View ArticleMon 11.18.13 | US and European Empire
After World War II, the US pushed the European imperial powers to abandon their colonies; it also adopted an anticolonial stance based on its democratic, anti-imperial values and principles. That's the...
View ArticleWed 5.28.14 | The American Counter-Revolution?
Gerald Horne sees the colonists' revolt of 1776 not as a noble struggle for liberty and independence but as a counter-revolution, one waged by this nation's Founding Fathers to defend their right to...
View ArticleMon 6.23.14 | US and European Empire
After World War II, the US pushed the European imperial powers to abandon their colonies; it also adopted an anticolonial stance based on its democratic, anti-imperial values and principles. That's the...
View ArticleMon 4.13.15 | Black Slaves, Indians, and the US Colonial Project
Notions of racial hierarchy abounded in the early nineteenth century as missionaries tried to convert Native Americans, federal officials sought to seize Indian lands, and Indians in the southern US...
View ArticleWed 10.28.15 | US Militarism: A Case Study
The Pacific Islands are, well, tiny, and often go unnoticed, except by the US military. Guam was made a US territory in 1898, and what's happened to its indigenous Chamorro population and its...
View ArticleWed 11.25.15 | Black Slaves, Indians, and the US Colonial Project
Notions of racial hierarchy abounded in the early nineteenth century as missionaries tried to convert Native Americans, federal officials sought to seize Indian lands, and Indians in the southern US...
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