#Colonized

The Romans considered basically all fruits/vegetables to be one of two things: apples or melons. This lasted up until recently: potatoes being pommes de terre (earth apples), tomatoes being pomodoros,
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Haiti has been a site of resistance against colonialism & white supremacist rule for centuries now. Haitians are currently demanding the resignation of the current president Jovenel Moïse News stories
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So, while we're on the subject of techno-Platonism (@PankhurstEM ), I've decided to read Martine Rothblatt's 'From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Form.' I think I'm
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why puerto ricans don’t claim lin-manuel miranda and why you shouldn’t support him [thread]: lin-manuel miranda supported the obama promesa bill. what is promesa? after the puerto rican economic recession
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THREADTRUMP: A REINCARNATION OF IDI AMINLet me tell you the story—the nightmare—of Idi Amin in Uganda. Because it is about time that Americans start learning a few things from Africans.1/
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A thread on #bridgertonnetflix (OR, why we get this shlock instead of a Haitian Revolution epic!)#BRIDGERTON is a post-racialist fantasy. In its utopian world, Blacks & whites are
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Happy Juneteenth! This a perfect day to talk about how black people have always fought for freedom and how that fight often led us to seek it beyond U.S. borders.
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1/ Here's an updated thread on borderline personality, from a forthcoming book chapter. (I wasn't happy with the earlier version—this one's better) "The term borderline dates back to a time
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Most white American abolitionists were white supremacists. As I teach my students, they got it right on the evils of slavery & fighting to end it. But most were woefully
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Happy #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth . Join me as I celebrate all of the best Native American Superheroes all month long! Y’all ready? Lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... DAY 1: Jason Strongbow aka AMERICAN EAGLE! Jason
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a thread on non binary misconceptions!! firstly non binary is not new at all!! many indeginous cultures veiwed gender as a spectrum as far back as 400 BCE the two
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A Reflection At the end of September, I made a FB post. “I am finalizing my doctoral dissertation at an R1 institution on four second-generation Indian American teachers who are
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Black migration to the USSR: A thread Disclaimer: The experiences of some Black people don’t always account for all Black people, we all have diverse experiences that are unique and
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European historians use a comparative notion of “balance of probabilities” when claiming knowledge transmission from Europe (Greece) to #India, but insist on the absolute notion of “beyond all reasonable doubt”
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Dr. Joy James on Kathleen Cleaver as a key architect, on the point of the Black Panther Party. watching the whole thing now (which seems to be about how Nixon
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OK, let's dig into this. (Thread)1) The example is nonsense and means nothing beyond the fact that our film industry had a tiny makeup budget and absolutely zero aptitude in
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