Weaving the unthought
The little-known history of Iranian cinema uncovers its overlooked history of slavery and anti-blackness.
The little-known history of Iranian cinema uncovers its overlooked history of slavery and anti-blackness.
If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.
Even though Israeli novelist Agur Schiff’s latest book is meant to be a satirical reflection on the legacy of slavery and stereotypes about Africa, it ends up reinforcing them.
What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.
A new Brazilian film shows the role memory plays in African spirituality and dreams of liberation.
The story about peanuts, and the people who grew it at the margins of an empire in 19th century West Africa, then the most abundant source of the world’s most important oilseed.
The intimate connection between the horror unleashed on Europe's Jews and the preceding centuries of atrocities perpetrated by the "Enlightened" West on those they colonized and enslaved.
Slavery existed in the Sahel before the Transatlantic Slave Trade and endured beyond its abolitions. To this day.
France’s history of violence policing left a legacy of law and disorder, targeting dissidents, in its former colonies.
Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.
Breaking with the usual media conversation about the carnival that recalls Cape Town’s slave past.
A visit to a museum in a French port city, brings up questions about how slavery is remembered.
Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.
Dominant culture in South Africa benignly recall slavery as part of a vaguely picturesque past that left us with beautiful colonial houses, award-winning wines and tourism.
The irony and the absurdity that the case against journalist Rafael Marques -- an opponent of state corruption in Angola -- is being heard in a former slave house.
The Danish-Trinidadian artist Jeanette Ehlers is using the white man’s tools to strike back.
The resistance legacy of Brazilian slaves suffers from both romanticism and a spotty historical record. But it also persists as a potent social and cultural symbol.
This tumblr focuses on reading, researching, and writing histories of intimacy, sex, and sexuality during Atlantic slave period.
People forget that for 176 years, racial slavery was the central institution in a large part of the territories that would come to form South Africa.