#Colonial

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

Noting debates here over the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu (March-May 1954), it remains my position that the French loss (esp post-Korean War armistice) was a needless disaster &

Leslie Mac

LeslieMac

A few things seeing Black Americans react to this Jamaican High Court decision re locs in school. 1) Jamaica gained “independence” in 1962. The year my oldest sister was born.

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Vaidik_tweets

This article correctly states : "Between 1815 and 1828, 63% of all recorded acts of sati took place in Calcutta."But it does not probe into the reasons why the practice

Aar Waaq

giama86

In order to achieve peace in Africa, colonial borders must be abolished and make way for borders that truly reflect the diverse Africa we all love. To all the butthurt

Boniface Mwangi

bonifacemwangi

How Kenya Police are trained to behave and act like criminals. THREAD #KenyaPoliceForce I'd promised to do a thread of #KenyaPoliceForce today. The force is 133 years old and l

Uttara

uttaras

Thread with a list on some histories of partition: The other day I met someone who told me very little has been written on the partition of India. This is

Ernest Ming-tak Leung 梁明德

ernestleungmt

1/7 Hard to imagine now, but North Korea once had a dapper cabinet - revolutionary "Mad Men" no less. Taken from a 1946 NK publication confiscated by the US Army

Ian Pangilinan Stan Account

jbcabret

Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month!!The LGBTQ+ community and their allies commemorate the Stonewall riots and the first stone thrown by transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in New York

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Miryam1968

When Francis #Fukuyama, in his 1992 book, disclosed the "end of history" #thesis, he became a world celebrity.The formulation was simple, but devastating for the left: faced with the evidence

Sir Fatuous Pauper

jonewe05

One of my least favourite types of history books are those that rely not on what happened, but on what people said.When evaluating an event as massive as the Great

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Activist, Jazz and culture icon Dorothy Masuka (her surname should read "Masuku" but colonial administrators didn't care to spell names correctly on birth certificates) passed away on this day in

अमीदेव

iamamidev

#ThanksDrAmbedkar #ambdekar_on_population& #birthcontrol 1. As the number of studies on reproductive health in India is proliferating today, it becomes inevitable to study the views of Babasaheb on the family planning

Nim Ralph

NMRLPH

Great thread on The Times article re GRA today and the status quo outcome. This means trans ppl still self-ID in all the ways we currently do; everywhere except in

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

And you’re owned by multiational @Unilever, which spent our entire marginalised brown lives (until only two month’s ago) mass marketing “Fair & Lovely” SKIN WHITENING cream to these very same

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

100 years to the 1920 “Nabi Musa Riots”, aka Easter Disturbances, انتفاضة موسم النبي موسى מאורעות תר״פ.(THREAD)---------The Jerusalem riot was the first major Palestinian anti-Zionist violent confrontation, and as such

Jorge J Rodríguez V

JJRodV

In their essay "Is Latino/a Identity a Racial Identity?" Linda Martín Alcoff cites philosopher Ofelia Schutte who argues that Latinx identity "may be a means to disaffiliate us from our