Tag: colonialism

“Far from our barrios, mountains, and islands, we cook, so that we may practice swallowing our undesirable truths, acidic and blood-heavy.”

The soft-focus Britain of Downton Abbey bears little resemblance to the real Britain collapsing under the weight of racism, austerity, and COVID-19. As Brexit plods on, it’s time for an honest reckoning of the history and future of this outsize little island.

Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it’s a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.

The Portuguese colonizers of West Central Africa learned it the hard way: you mess with the Queen of Ndongo and Matamba at your own peril.

Upon returning to India, a course in Urdu helps Sharanya Deepak embrace the rich and turbulent history of her native country.

In New Mexico, cultural appropriation by newcomers is fueling Indigenous activism over colonialism and property rights.

An Englishman searches for what’s left of Providence, a failed Puritan colony in the Caribbean.

Violent tensions have existed between Haiti’s Vodouisants and missionary Christians for centuries.