Hey everyone–remember that the United States is an imperialist power with colonies. One of them is a place called Puerto Rico, which surprised our last president. Well, said colony is now comple
ProPublica has a typically excellent deep dive on how the long-term debts of Barbados makes it very difficult for that small island nation to fight climate change. With Lagarde on the phone, Mottley m
I guess I am going to be imprisoned for crimes of Critical Race Theory for mentioning this, but it turns out that the crimes of colonialism and the Native dispossession that follows have long tentacle
One thing that I find fascinating is that for all the talk about western Europe being supposedly more progressive than the U.S., as the Americans get serious about reckoning with their racist past, Eu
On November 11, 1918, French authorities in Indochina created the first labor code for its rubber plantations there, tying workers to the land in a way that would never have been acceptable in France
On July 31, 1905, Matumbi tribesman in German East Africa (today, mostly Tanzania, or Tanganyika as it was known then) marched on the trading post of Samanga, burning cotton fields and the trading pos
Albert Memmi, the Franco-Tunisian writer, died on May 22. Memmi is best known for his meditations on colonialism, racism, and Jewishness. Born in Tunis, educated within the French system, sent from th
This is the graveyard at Jamestown Colony. Jamestown was a complete disaster in its early years. See, all the European colonial incursions faced a problem: there wasn’t very many of them and the