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Over the course of the twentieth century, Haitians, escaping poverty and unrest, sought refuge in the Bahamas as well. It was and remains a deeply stratified place, sitting at a crossroads, with the global elites and their tax havens at the top and poor Haitians living in shanties at the bottom. It is one of the tragic ironies of global history
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As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Ideas of blackness and criminality were becoming inherently interlinked.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Since there is nothing revelatory in Hope in Action , one is left wondering what it’s all for – not just the book itself but the elaborate publicity tour, the Daily Show appearance, the book event in Hillary Clinton’s hometown of Chappaqua. What are the hopes that Marin now wants translated into action? Presumably she’s being rolled out as an... See more
Lily Lynch, Confections — Sidecar
For almost 20 years, I have considered myself a student of "negrophilia". This means that I spend much of my time scrutinising how white and black people relate to each other, trying especially to understand their attraction to each other.
Petrine Archer-Straw • Negrophilia: A double-edged infatuation
“I’m telling you that you are focusing on Pakistani grooming gangs because, probably, you’re racist.”
Emily Maitlis claims there are ten times the number of White perpetrators of grooming gangs than Pakistani.
A thread on how she gets the stats wrong 🧵 https://t.co/LUReO2mqCm
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