#Colonialism

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YavuzBiH

What was the Ottoman Millet System? It was an independent court of law under which a non Muslim confessional community (Christian Canon law, or Jewish Halakha etc.) was allowed to

someotherva

atharva_karn

Police brutality in India is a direct result of the country's colonial legacy.[A Thread] The Indian Police was founded on the basis of laws (The Police Act, 1861) enacted during

Dani

xodanix3

Since the factoid about Maslows Hierarchy having Blackfoot originsis recirculating. I figured I would cite my 2018 #Schemesbecomeschema piece on patreon about how societal perception parallels with concepts like self

MoniWP

MoniSayz

Sis @MelaninMvskoke and I had an inbox convo yesterday. Grateful for the space she made for processing some things surrounding liberation and sovereignty for Black n Native folks. Started around

O̩báfé̩mi Awóló̩wò̩

obafemiawolowo_

The Northern elite benefited from colonialism. From the very start, the Sultan of Sokoto, the Shehu of Bornu,& the Emir of Kano were each placed on a fixed salary of

j fernandes

westhighlandrim

The way the early Americas are erased by the new AP World History curriculum is really something. Course starts with a 14 section unit spanning 1200-1450 ce. Everywhere except the

Gogol Dhaaf

ladanay

After seeing this tweet I've spent the past couple of hours trying to find out what happened to his sister Isabella Marincola and mother, and god its bleak.https://twitter.com/apjama/status/1259075173585739776?s=19 Isabella was

Berina

anirebee

A friend asked me why Bosnians sometimes get offended when people claim we speak the same language as Serbs and Croats and are just a dialect of Serbo-Croatian. I’m no

Sachiko Ishikawa

Ishikawa_Sachi

Okay—we need to talk about white people’s idealization (fetishization) of Japan.You know why white cishet men love Japan?Because a) expat culture and white privilege b) orientalism c) classism d) sexism

BEMIS

bemis_scotland

1/10 Today's #PfG in respect of Scotland's minority ethnic communities contains some positive initiatives however our early assessment is that it is timid + should have done much more. Thread

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

LadyOfSardines

An admission: I am finding it far more relevant to my educational justice politics to read about organizing among/by health care workers & the unhoused than 99% of what I

Fatuma

Fatumaabdulahi

"None of us are destined to be poor. No nation is destined to have disease, disasters, and death only. It depends on the CREATIVITY and determination of their people". Education

National Canadian Film Day

canfilmday

This #CanFilmDay, look no further than @thenfb for some excellent film picks! What will you be watching to celebrate National Canadian Film Day? Let us know! Angry Inuk is an

Joshua Clover

joshuaclov3r

fwiw, as a communist on my last day here on this platform:a) communism, socialism, & anarchism are all distinct political dispositions, despite the persistent elision of the differences between communism

azu

oiseau_tempete

Good morning Twitter Yesterday I noticed I read 21 books during the quarantine (it's quite a lot, even for me) and I thought it would be nice to do

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

wmnjoya

Two days ago, I was in an interview in which I surprised the interviewers by saying that Kenyans don't have the same political consciousness as Africans in the other settler