A protest in defense of international students, July 14, 2020. Source: @mtnsbeyondmtns on twitter By Abigail Boggs On July 10, 2020 the National Geographic website published “Education interrupted. Years lost. Students face ‘cruelty of new visa policy,” an article…
Roosevelt Roads signage. Photo: Diana Ramos Gutiérrez By Diana Ramos Gutiérrez When arriving at the entrance of the former Roosevelt Roads naval station in the eastern Puerto Rican town of Ceiba, the…
June 20, 2020, Black Trans Lives Matter rally at Wade Park in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Samantha Coco. BY KEVIN HENDERSON J.K. Rowling, British author of the popular Harry Potter series, has gained a large following on her Twitter feed over the last…
The Queen Victoria statue being removed from Charing Cross in Lahore, July 1951. Published in the Pakistan Times.
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)…
Artwork by Banksy. 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…
A depiction of the conquest of Mexico in Codex Azcatitlan (early 16th Century). The image shows the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, the Nahua interpreter Malintzin (Malinche) and the African conquistador Juan Garrido. While Cortés and Malintzin have often been acknowledged as icons of mestizaje, Juan Garrido is hardly ever mentioned in popular historical narratives.
The Abusable Past
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…
Protestors in Paris, June 16 2020. Photo credit: Mathilde Larrere, Twitter @LarrereMathilde
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…
Black Lives Matter Protest in DC, 6/1/2020. (Instagram: @koshuphotography) 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…
Pablo Delano, A Group of newly made Americans at Ponce, Porto Rico, (detail from the conceptual art installation The Museum of the Old Colony, 2016-ongoing). Source: Stereocard published by M. H. Zahner, Niagara Falls, New York, 1898. Photographer not identified. 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…
Photo Credit: Jackie Rodriguez Vega 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…