A new study shows how the legacy of colonialism is still deeply entrenched within scientific practice across the Caribbean archipelago. Rather than solely critiquing these practices, however, the ...

University of Cambridge research associate Harriet Mercer on how colonialism has fuelled global warming and made many communities more vulnerable to its effects Colonialism, the report asserts, has ...

The Africana Studies Department and the Puerto Rican Association engaged the University community in a discussion of the issues different colonies in the Caribbean currently face after Hurricanes Irma ...

1. Intimate encounters: an archaeology of sexualities within colonial worlds / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Barbara L. Voss -- 2. Sexual effects: postcolonial and queer perspectives on the archaeology ...

For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the October 2023 Hamas attack against Israel. In March 2024, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations ...

The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, the UN Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, told the Special Committee on Decolonisation on Friday. Speaking on behalf of ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel “Afterlives” is set in colonial East Africa occupied by Germany in the ...

The fire that devastated the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this month was made all the worse by the deep-rooted effects of colonialism. As the recovery process begins, Native Hawaiians see an ...

On Nov. 6, the projector in the Martinos Auditorium of the Granoff Center for Creative Arts lit up with the sharp, colorful scenes of Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s film “This is Not a Burial, It’s a ...

A new exhibition at the Africa Museum in Belgium takes a frank look at a large-scale propaganda painting and the institution’s own past role in adding to the spin. By Nina Siegal Reporting from ...

Prior to the first world war, sprawling European empires collectively controlled roughly 80% of Earth’s landmass. Following WWII, that percentage drastically shrank, as colonies and occupied ...