For as long as I can remember, my dad had one goal: to live longer than his dad did. I never met my grandfather — or as we call him in Tamil: Appappa. He died of a heart attack when he was 56: before ...
A new study shows how the legacy of colonialism is still deeply entrenched within scientific practice across the Caribbean archipelago. Rather than solely critiquing these practices, however, the ...
On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...
As a 6-year-old school girl, Beverly Roberts waited on a side street in Trinidad, with the rest of her classmates, to catch a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth II. "I was excited and I was waving a flag. I ...
On Nov. 6, the projector in the Martinos Auditorium of the Granoff Center for Creative Arts lit up with the sharp, colorful scenes of Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s film “This is Not a Burial, It’s a ...
Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel “Afterlives” is set in colonial East Africa occupied by Germany in the ...
1. Intimate encounters: an archaeology of sexualities within colonial worlds / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Barbara L. Voss -- 2. Sexual effects: postcolonial and queer perspectives on the archaeology ...
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe in his Portland, Oregon studio. Photo by Mark Mirocha. Courtesy of COMA Gallery In March of this year, Otis Quaicoe traveled to Australia on a research trip ahead of his solo ...
Prior to the first world war, sprawling European empires collectively controlled roughly 80% of Earth’s landmass. Following WWII, that percentage drastically shrank, as colonies and occupied ...
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