Posts tagged: imperialism

The Colonial Gas Machine: Teargas Grenades, Secular Humanist Police, and the Intoxication of Racialized Lives

For the privileged, tear gas is an event; for the colonized, it composes a fundamental aspect of life.
In the Shadow of Frantz Fanon

A profile of Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, assistant to Frantz Fanon from 1958 to 1961.
A Second Wind for Weather Underground? The Prairie Fire Statement

The Weather Underground's major achievement of the 1974 was not any armed action, it was the release of Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism.
The Balfour Declaration and its Consequences

Today marks the 100-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Here we present an essay by Avi Shlaim that examines the declaration and its historiography.
Who Lit This Fire? Approaching the History of the Fossil Economy

Outside of hard climate science, history should be the preeminent field for the study of global warming.
Puerto Rico: Belonging to, But Not Part of

The Trump administration's delay in sending real aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria is a distasteful display of colonialist racism. But it's par for the course: our citizenship has always been second-class.
Two Poems by Heriberto Yépez

"~~Yépez~~ is at the forefront of a generation of writers who are questioning notions of fluidity and synthesis, a generation that has seen those same categories veil the advent of global neoliberalism," Edgar Garcia has written.
W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Sovereignty

An inquiry into Du Bois' articulation with Liberia, colonialism and its concomitant formations of Black middle classes, the history of the "Americo-Liberian" elite, and the advent of the United States as a colonial power.
Coming to Terms: The Third World and the Dialectic of Imperialism

"How are we to conceptualise what we [black peoples] were, what we are, what we are becoming?"
Racial Capitalocene

Is the Anthropocene racial?
Video: Vivek Chibber — Eurocentrism, the Academy, and Social Emancipation

Video of Vivek Chibber's talk at University of Cape Town on "the relations between the critique of Eurocentrism and the aspiration for social emancipation — and the place of the academy."
On the Obsolescence of the Bourgeois Novel in the Anthropocene

How can cultural workers respond to climate change? Can the cultural work of responding to climate change be a global conversation? In his latest addition to his General Intellects collection of critical appreciations, McKenzie Wark writes about the novelist Amitav Ghosh's influential lectures on "the great derangement."