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Visiting Jamaica Kincaid's Vermont garden — Harvard Gazette

Author’s new children's book illustrated by Kara Walker presents a history of colonialism, identity through plants.

Harvard Gazette

Most children’s books are just utter nonsense and really seem designed to blunt a child’s thinking,” Kincaid said. “You should tell us about the world. A child should know all of that, because it encourages us as children to seek out the truth.

Jamaica Kincaid quoted in a story by Eileen O'Grady in The Harvard Gazette. Jamaica Kincaid’s new book presents history of colonialism, identity through plants that helped shape it

An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children Author: Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker

#book #children #jamaica kincaid #kara walker #colonialism #truth

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They took part in Apache ceremonies. Their schools expelled them for satanic activities

Educators on the Fort Apache Reservation have repeatedly condemned teens for participating in a sacred dance. It follows a pattern of Christian discipline begun more than a century ago

www.theguardian.com

“The way the school saw it, it was devil worship.In October 2019, three teenage girls were punished for participating in a spiritual ceremony. Their Arizona school expelled two of them, and let the third off with a warning, citing their attendance as a violation of school policy and grounds for expulsion.Caitlyn, now 18, says she and her friends were disciplined for participating in a Sunrise Dance, a traditional Native ceremony at the core of White Mountain Apache culture.

The Monday after the dance, Caitlyn’s parents told her to stay home that day. They had received a call from East Fork Lutheran school telling them not to send their daughter in. She didn’t know why. Then around noon, her mom got another phone call. The principal wanted to meet with Caitlyn, her parents and the local preacher. The principal and preacher also invited the two other girls and their families to their own private meetings with school leadership.At the start of each meeting, the families were chastised for participating in the dance. Caitlyn remembers her mother telling the principal and preacher how hypocritical they were to say the Apache people were not praying to God. “In the Bible, God himself says to come to me in all sorts,” she argued. “The dance is also a prayer; it’s another way.”

The leadership of the school, on the Fort Apache Reservation, disagreed with that interpretation and used pictures of the event posted on Facebook as evidence for their expulsions.The other two girls were immediately given letters of expulsion. Caitlyn was just given a warning. “I knew that I was already one of the principal’s favorites,” she says. “I think they just gave me a second chance, but they gave me a strong warning not to have a dance.”“

I sat on this for a while. It's a long article with a quite a lot of nuance. One part stopped me in my tracks:

I asked him how he reconciles his Christian faith with the history of violence upon the Apache people in the name of Jesus Christ. He took a beat. “That’s a stupid question. That is a white-person question.”

Sometimes encountering my whiteness flaberhasts me.

It's very important to hear and to regard others. Years ago when I did my student teaching there was a student with Tourette's s syndrome. Doctors gave her psychiatric medication which I doubt was appropriate. It was only when I was finished with my student teaching that I learned there was an outcry from community members and some of the teachers becasue of a belief the chid was posessed by a demon.

Source: theguardian.com

#colonialism #genocide #indigenous #white supremacy #indigenous rights

Two neighbouring countries, Rwanda and Uganda are extensively involved in illegal exploitation of DRC’s mineral resources and the violence that has plagued the eastern region in the past three decades. In recent years, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 has intensified its activities, which resulted in the resurgence of widespread violence and massive displacement of people. For years, the United Nations has sounded the alarm over Rwanda’s continued assistance to the M23, putting forward solid evidence of the “direct involvement” of Rwandan Defense Forces in the conflict in eastern Congo-Kinshasa, as well as Rwanda’s provision of “weapons, ammunitions, and uniforms” to the M23 rebels. The United Nations has also implicated Uganda, which has allowed M23 “unhindered” access to its territory during its operations. Despite this evidence, Western countries, especially the United States, have continued to provide support to the two countries, including military aid.

Soleil-Chandni Mousseau in African Arguments. Colonialism Revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.

#DRC #africa #colonialism #extraction #american foreign policy

Narratives Details - The William & Lynda Steere Herbarium

Explore our collections, and the stories they tell, like never before.

The William & Lynda Steere Herbarium

Black Botany: The Nature of Black Experience

Black Botany: The Nature of Black Experience seeks to acknowledge the complex relationship between enslaved Black people, nature, and the colonial environment and reconsider the conscious omission of Black knowledge of the natural world.

#history #knowledge #colonialism #food

Epistemologies are reservoirs of myth, mysticism and ritual that perform their own forms of magic. They conjure. Colonial epistemologies deny the conjure capacities of their own commitments, practices, and rituals, which makes them routinely unreflexive about the effects they produce and the worlds they maintain. This would only be an annoying absence of awareness, if such failed reflexivity didn’t turn out to be so very destructive.

Kristie Dotson in Critical Exchange, Vol. 21 (Springer LInk). Epistemic oppression, resistance, and resurgence

Berenstain, N., Dotson, K., Paredes, J. et al. Epistemic oppression, resistance, and resurgence. Contemp Polit Theory 21, 283–314 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00483-z

#colonialism #epistemology #kristie dotson #bad magic

For Fanon, Sekyi-Otu concludes, achieving a world free from racial hierarchy depends less on the “unencumbered freedom and optional decision of the moral subject” than on the ability to forge—out of “social agents caught in a tangled web of undeniable antagonism and ironic kinship”—a collective subject capable of creating a new set of conditions.

Sam Klug quoting Ato Sekyi-Otu in an essay at the Boston Review. Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?

Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.

Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience (1996) Ato Sekyi-Otu

The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

#frantz fanon #book #colonialism

Mapping it: Global South states charging war crimes in Gaza war

An increasing number of countries are leading or supporting cases in international courts, further isolating Israel and US

Responsible Statecraft

When tallied by the populations of these states, about 59% of the Global South has now led or backed international legal action against Israel. Moreover, as our mapping of the UNGA resolution of December 12 showed, a vast majority of Global South states have gone on record supporting an unconditional humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

#global south #colonialism #humanitarian law #international law

Genesis is not destiny. Documenting the historical fact that Israel came into existence in part through Zionism’s collaboration with colonialism does not mean that the only solution is a “decolonization” that would destroy the state and expel its inhabitants. What is objectionable about colonialism is not the immigration or settlement of a population of a different ethnic or national origin, or of people that are in some sense non-indigenous, but the domination of one group over another. It is impossible to rewind and rerun history. But it is possible, indeed necessary, to assure a future where Palestinians and Israelis have equal rights. Both peoples must be able to participate in choosing the government that rules them. Palestinians and Israelis must live either in two sovereign, equal states, or in one state as individuals with equal rights.

Barnett R. Rubin in the Boston Review. False Messiahs

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

#israel #palestine #history #justice #colonialism

As long as decolonial theory’s culturalist ban on universals is not itself challenged and overthrown, the material roots of colonialism and imperialism cannot be traced back historically and socially to their ultimate source: capitalism.

Neil Larsen at Jacobin, Reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy. The Reactionary Jargon of Decoloniality

Cloaked in an impenetrable jargon, “decoloniality” dehistoricizes and culturalizes colonialism. It’s a political and intellectual dead end for socialists.

Review of The Politics of Decolonial Investigations by Walter D. Mignolo

I'm farirly ignorant and thin skinned, so negative reviews often rankle me. But, sometimes a scathing review can be thrilling. I found this critical review to be thought provoking.

#book #crtitique #colonialism #decoloniality #walter mignolo #neil larsen #capitalism #theory

“Exterminate All the Brutes” | The New Press

“Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa a

"Conquerors’ stories are the ones that inform the self-mythology of the West—whereas the lives and stories of those displaced, enslaved, or killed are too often ignored and forgotten. “Exterminate All the Brutes” forces a crucial reckoning with a past that still echoes in our collective psyche—a reckoning that compels us to acknowledge the exploitation and brutality at the heart of our modern, globalized society."

#sven lindqvist #book #colonialism

Simon Sebaq Montefiore in The Atlantic. The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians.

Simon Sebaq Montefiore is an intimate friend of King Charles III and Queen Camilla of England.

King Charles is in Kenya not apologizing for colonial era suffering.

I haven't read much from The Atlantic since Laurene Powell Jobs bought it. I am a worker of the status that takes orders and does not give them. I'm not the target audience for The Atlantic.

I suppose that Montifiore's proposal to boycott films who feature people who have signed on to political perspectives he disagrees with could conceivably be directed at folks of humble means. But let's face it, his proposal for philanthropists to defund humanitarian organizations and universities is squarely directed towards Laurene Powell Jobs's target audience for The Atlantic.

This is why the article is important: "thought leaders" think like Simon Sebaq Montefiore.

#manufacturing consent #american foreign policy #colonialism #post colonilaism #migrant and displacement studies

The short video is very informative.

#lgbtq #colonialism #empire #law #anti colonialism #rightify ghana

While confined to reservations, the 1883 Religious Crimes Code attempted to strip Native people of First Amendment protections of freedom of religion by banning ceremonies and religious practices. This made it legal for Indian reservation agents and superintendents to confiscate or destroy Native religious objects. At the same time, Native children as young as four years old were institutionally kidnapped by government and Christian entities with the intent to reeducate them towards assimilation, so that they could become “good Americans.” In these boarding schools, Native children were forced to abandon their Native customs and languages. Under the care of the U.S. government and Christian guardianship, thousands of Native children died with no accountability to their parents.

Dennis Zotigh in Smithsonian Magazine. Native Rights Are Human Rights

Remembering the humanity of Indigenous peoples on International Human Rights Day

#colonialism #residential schools #land back #law #religious freedom

Sadly, prior to this law, Native people were prohibited from practicing our Native religion. The meat of the law enacted the basic civil liberties to protect and preserve American Indians’ inherent right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise the traditional religious rights and cultural practices in Indian Country.

Kenny Frost quoted in a 2018 article in Smithsonian Magzine by Dennis Zotigh. Native Perspectives on the 40th Anniversary of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Forty years ago, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act finally finally extended that right to the country’s Native citizens. Here Native Americans who observe traditional ways talk about religious freedom.

#law #indian law #humani rights #colonialism #indigenous knowledge

An overlooked yet critical perspective of protected areas is their primitive accumulation function to transfer wealth and immaterial values of nature from colonies to colonizers. They start with the violent dispossession of Indigenous communities, followed by militarized control over the territory, and commodification of lands and wildlife resources by the corporate imperialists.

Aby L. Sène in Africa is a Country. Land grabs and conservation propaganda

To preserve biodiversity, protected area lands should be returned to African indigenous communities who play an essential role in conservation.

#colonialism #indigenous knowledge #enclosure #africa

I wasn't so naive as to not - to think that there weren't one-offs, that there wasn't violence in empire. And that's how Kenya had always been written about, right? When there were violent episodes, you explained it as an aberration, as a one-off, as a bad apple of a colonial officer. And what I came to find at the end of my research was that, no, this - not only, in fact, was that not the case, but it was completely systemic. It was part and parcel of the structures of colonial rule, the ways in which coercion was infused within the civilizing mission that these played out with dramatic and just consequential effects in Kenya.

Caroline Elkins in an interview with Arun Venugopal on Fresh Air at NPR. 'Legacy of Violence' documents the dark side of the British Empire

By by 1920, the British Empire covered 24% of the Earth's land mass. Historian Caroline Elkins says British rulers portrayed themselves as benevolent, but used systematic violence to maintain control.

via Desparado Philosophy

Legacy Of Violence: A History Of The British Empire

#empire #monarchy #violence #colonialism #book #whiteness

Those who are unable to make a living in the Native Reserves are "encouraged" by the British officials through the chiefs who act as agents of the government to go to work on the European plantations. When the tax was first introduced in 1913 the leading newspaper of the The East African Standard (February 8, 1913), congratulated the government. It said: We consider that taxation is the only possible method of compelling the native to leave his reserve for the purpose of seeking work. Only in this way can the cost of living be increased for the native . . . it is on this that the supply of labor and the price of labor depend. To raise the rate of wages would not increase but would diminish the supply of labor. A rise in the rate of wages would enable the hut or poll tax of a family, sub-tribe or tribe to be earned by fewer external workers. To enable the employers to keep control over their serfs, every African is compelled by law to carry a i, which is a labor pass. Failure to have a Kipande is a criminal offense under the Native Registration Ordinance and such African is liable to heavy fine, imprisonment, or both. "The purpose of the Kipande is clear. It guarantees that employers retain their labor supply.”

George Padmore in Black Agenda Report, first published: “Behind the Mau Mau,” Phylon 14 no. 4 (1953). ESSAY: Behind the Mau Mau: George Padmore, 1953

#colonialism #africa #queen elizabeth

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