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The destructive force that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has unleashed in Gaza is rooted in a century-old ideology that says overwhelming power is how Israel should deal with Palestinians.
Owls, once seen as harbingers of death, are now celebrated in popular literature and culture in North America and Britain.
Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian cultures.
Fewer than a quarter of once-colonized countries make official government-to-government requests for an apology or reparations.
A scholar of Native American and Indigenous rhetorics writes about the harm done to Native American nations through colonization and what can be done to reduce it.
Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration.
Transport development paved the way for colonization and is directly linked to the chronic and extreme social inequities Indigenous communities continue to face to this day.
Whistleblower allegations that the government possesses UFOs may not be backed up by public physical evidence, but some argue that listening for extraterrestrial life is the first phase of contact.
Canadians should learn the lessons of the U.S. and the U.K. to avoid idealizing a republic with a powerful president and at the same time acknowledge that a constitutional monarchy is no alternative.
Gems do not a monarch make, and repatriating the Crown Jewels would strengthen the contemporary British monarchy at a time when it most urgently needs to modernize.
The first ancient DNA sequences from peoples of the medieval Swahili civilization push aside colonialist stories and reveal genetic connections from the past.
As a language of instruction, French has long held a prominent place in Senegal’s institutions and media. But Wolof, the most spoken national language, has regained its lost places.
Indigenous language instructors struggle to keep their languages from becoming lost.
A historian of the residential schools explains how religion played a key role in assimilationist systems for Indigenous children in Canada and the United States.
People must learn more about the history and legacies of residential schools and day schools and understand their relationship to Canada’s colonial project.
After years of marginalization, the bèlè dance has been embraced by a growing community who see it as a form of social and spiritual healing.
A scholar of social work shares what he has learned about colorism by conducting research in more than 20 countries over the past few decades.
Senegal’s colonial heritage has been interpreted to conceive an African future, turning colonial heritage into an archive of a possible Afrotopia.
Being both trans and a person of color comes with a unique set of challenges. Collectively working toward overcoming these barriers is one way this community fights for survival.
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Lecturer in Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College
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Assistant Professor, Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science, School of Environmental Studies, University of Guelph
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Rhoda and Richard Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University
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Associate Professor of International Business, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
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Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia
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Instructor, Legal Studies and Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Global Social Justice, University of Regina
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of History, Thompson Rivers University
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Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
