BY ALI USMAN QASMI The tearing down of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol by protestors acting in solidarity with the trans-Atlantic Black Lives Matter (BLM)…
BY ADAM GILBERT When the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was toppled and dumped into a harbor during a Black Lives Matter protest in…
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By Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza Content warning: This text makes reference to racist stereotypes. While the images are not visible here, there are hyperlinks to some…
By Chelsea Stieber As monuments are dismantled and statues brought down across the globe, debates about slavery, memory, histories, and silences have come to occupy…
By Charlotte Rosen The police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, and the subsequent uprisings against racist police brutality in Minneapolis and…
By R. Sánchez-Rivera Recently, a published, peer-reviewed article caused a great deal of controversy when it circulated among many academic Facebook pages such as Latinx…
By Mike Amezcua The police killing of George Floyd has sparked urban rebellions and demonstrations across hundreds of American cities. The accompanying looting and destruction…
Regarding cruise ships, the terrorism of tourism in the Caribbean, and the Western media’s summer 2019 discourse about “poisonings” at resorts in the Dominican Republic…
By Aaron S. Lecklider Like many of you, the Abusable Past wondered how the New York Times decided to publish Tom Cotton’s editorial advocating the…
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By Catherine Chou and Gina Anne Tam On May 21st 2020, after nearly a year of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the government of the…