Tag: Colonialism
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Loading…Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science
Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academics’ fascination with phrenology, the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence
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Beings Seen and Unseen
An Interview with Amitav Ghosh In this wide-ranging conversation, Amitav Ghosh calls on storytellers to lead us in the necessary work of collective reimagining: decentering human narratives and re-centering stories of the land.
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The Lesson of Iraq
“Let us not forget that our essential policy interests are identical with those of the Arabs.”
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‘We Wish to Be Able to Sing’
For more than half a century, the people of Easter Island lived under an oppressive colonial regime. Then a schoolteacher sparked an unlikely revolution.