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Colonization

Beyond Colonialism in a Sentimental Mood

Éric Vuillard’s new book punctures the curious French nostalgia for Indochina

December 4, 2023 • by Albert Nguyen

Empires tend to create a rosy picture of the past, conveniently ignoring the atrocities they inflicted. Vuillard avoids this trap, in a witty manner. ...

Beyond Colonialism in a Sentimental Mood

Race

What Does It Mean to Be “Latino”?

From ads to academia, which box do we check?

November 21, 2023 • by Kevin Anzzolin

From historical influences to contemporary marketing, Kevin Anzzolin explores the evolving nomenclature of the diverse "Latino" community....

Middle East & North Africa

Have We Scholars of Anti-Semitism Failed to Facilitate Empathy for Its Victims?

What we can learn from scholars of anti-Black racism

October 18, 2023 • by Magda Teter

For almost a century, most of us have focused on dissecting anti-Semitic ideas and ideologies. But—with the very important exception of those studying the Holocaust—we have not paid enough attention to the impact these ideas, images, and actions have on Jews as human beings....

Have We Scholars of Anti-Semitism Failed to Facilitate Empathy for Its Victims?

Genocide

Asia’s Auschwitz

An excerpt from Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust

May 22, 2023 • by Andrew I. Port

In an excerpt from Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, Andrew I. Port examines German responses to genocide in Cambodia....

Race

After Derby Day, a Note of Caution About Horses and “Races”

The irony is that racing bred race

May 10, 2023 • by Mackenzie Cooley

The irony is that racing bred race...

After Derby Day, a Note of Caution About Horses and “Races”

Gender

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

An excerpt from Elena Shih’s probing book

April 18, 2023 • by Elena Shih

Commercial sex in Bangkok, broadcast through tourist networks, now links the city in many minds with human trafficking—following the global tendency to conflate all sex commerce with sex trafficking. ...

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

Genocide

Left on a Mountain to Die

An excerpt from Under the Naga Tail: The escape from the Cambodian Genocide

March 22, 2023 • by James Taing and Mae Bunseng Taing

An excerpt of Under the Naga Tail, the memoir of a refugee who escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia....

Art & Design

Poetic Rage, Anti-colonial Avant-gardes

An excerpt of Interior Frontiers

March 7, 2023 • by Ann Stoler

This essay distills what I see as a fugitive, peripatetic set of counter-colonial avant-gardes, innovative and mobile to different degrees, challenging both what avant-gardes do and who are included among them. I do not treat them as a movement but as convergent spaces of work and thought, of “counter-conducts,” of ...

Climate & Ecology

A Botany of Decolonization

An excerpt from Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change

February 13, 2023 • by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Colonization is built into the very soil of New York....

Race

Everyone in the Pool? No—Not Everyone

A site for fun and competition, the swimming pool has its own civil rights history—one that is not yet resolved

May 25, 2022 • by Janet Golden

When you think about desegregation, do you think about schools? Buses? Lunch counters? How about that most innocent, necessary, and often taken for granted of summer recreation spots for hot kids and their parents—the public pool? Yet pools were, and are, a public facility, and because of that were segregated by ...

Colonization

How My Grandmother Ceased to Be African

How East African Asians have been written out of African history

May 11, 2022 • by Shivani Somaiya

And in the pre-independence era, a new racial politics emerged, one that has, for far too long, encapsulated much of East Africa’s postcolonial thought, in which families like ours were increasingly depicted as foreigners to a place that had long been our home....

K Through 12

The Experiment

An excerpt from Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality

April 20, 2022 • by Stephen G. Bloom

Steven Armstrong was the first to show up in Classroom No. 1O on the morning of Friday, April 5, 1968. “Hey, Mrs. Elliott,” Steven said as he slung his books on his desk. “They shot that King last night! Why’d they shoot that King?” Steven was an alert, savvy kid. The son of ...