#Colonial

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ssozinha__

INSIDE BRITAIN’S COLONIAL MIND — Opening a dialogue about the colonial atrocities of the British empire in Africa & the British imperialistic mindset. A THREAD The purpose of this thread,

AKA Nina

Nina_AKA_Noodle

Hate to cut interesting tidbits from research, but it's too long! I'm going to share the bits I'm sad to cut below. Re: the Taisho period "In Japan, toys

Sneha Rao

SnehaRao994

This seems like a genuine question that many people outside of the US who are unfamiliar with Electoral politics have. #Election2020 #WTF #USIsNotaDemocracy https://twitter.com/BhagwaanUvacha/status/1324735412464594944 For POTUS election p

Ajab

yakabikaj

Fun #etymology of the day: Yiddish באקאליינע bakaleyne "grocery store", ultimately from Arabic بقالة biqāla or بقال baqqāl. It was borrowed from Arabic into Persian as بقالی baqqālī, and from

Kojo Koram

KojoKoram

Seeing this shared a lot. Perhaps the strongest articulation of a growing feeling that empire isn’t really relevant to today.Problem is this review, like many others, never talks about distinctiveness

Joshua Yang

joshiunn

Visited the Wanchin Church, a 150-yo Spanish-Filipino style Basilica, & its surrounding Catholic areas in Pingtung over the weekend. The establishment of Catholicism in this area is interestingly intertwined w/

Deepa Shivaram

deepa_shivaram

Biden/Harris made pre-recorded remarks at a campaign virtual celebration of India's Independence Day. Harris on her mother: "She wanted us to understand where she had come from and where we

Soshi

daidey

So yesterday on CH a group of Somalis started a room ‘Are dark people really East African’ . Urgh! Then South Sudanese folks opened a different room reacting to this

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

wmnjoya

Kenyans need to strategize on ballot and economic boycotts. The principle is simple: make the political class irrelevant.We have historical precedent. That's how our ancestors resisted colonialism and made the

Emma

AgarthaEmma

When most people visit New York CityThey look up at towering skyscrapers and iconic skylinesBut New York was once a small farming community Filled with brooks and streamsIf you look

Sri Thiruvadanthai

teasri

Thread on why India could not have emulated South Korea. First, the different colonial experiences. Japanese left Korea with a much higher level of literacy, better bureacracy, and better records.

The People's Oracle

PeoplesOracle

Part of me really vibes with this.But the other part of me says I didn’t choose this language. This is the language of my ancestors kidnappers and abusers. How can

Afrasiab Khattak

a_siab

Under the “war on terror “ of the last few decades & the recent hybrid martial law in Pakistan, military has replaced civilian executive in dealing with population along the

Tara Williamson

WilliamsonTara

I didn’t think I was going to comment on identity stuff but, I realized that one of the things that’s fucked whenever identity stuff comes up is that I almost

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Researching the early Islamic period in North Africa is challenging for many reasons-The written sources usually used for this period, like histories, pay less attention to the Islamic lands west

Yashasvī Pratāp

yashasvipratap

It is interesting how Marathi School Historians like D.R. Bhandarkar bend over backwards in trying to reinforce the claim that there are no Kshatriyas, at least not real.Regional belief bias

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