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Tag Archives: Race
Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance
By Erika Edwards, University of North Carolina, Charlotte It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I, a young, small-town girl had landed in a foreign country to begin my study abroad. I knew nothing about Argentina and … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Argentina, censuses, Colonialism, Latin America, Migration, Race, Slavery, Trade, Urban Modernity
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Neoliberalism and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in a North American City
By John Munro, St. Mary’s University It was, on the face of it, an unremarkable event. In the spring of 1989, a single-room-occupancy hotel and beer parlor was torn down in North Vancouver, Canada, and a new condominium tower was … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Canada, Colonialism, Ethnicity, gentrification, Industry, North America, Politics, Race
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Sex Work Regulation and the Colonial Order in Late Nineteenth-Century Cairo
By Francesca Biancani, University of Bologna In modern cities, flows of people, capital, and desires intermingled and structured a new spatial order. Straight streets, airy boulevards, agreeable parks, coffee houses, and taverns constituted the backdrop of a new type of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Colonialism, Empire, Middle East, Race, Spatial History
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From Rural to City Dwellers: A New Book on Indians in Kenya
Sana Aiyar, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015, 384 pp., $49.95 / £36.95 / €45.00. Reviewed by Saima Nasar, University of Birmingham Indians have contributed to Kenya’s multiracial tapestry for centuries. At Independence, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Africa, Britain, Diaspora, Empire, Ethnicity, India, Indian Ocean, Migration, Race, Trade
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Between a Wall and the Sea: A New Book on Colonial Havana
Guadalupe García, Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana, Oakland: University of California Press, 2016, 296 pp., $34.95, £24.95 ISBN: 9780520286047 Reviewed by Cecilia T. Fernández, Freie Universität Berlin Strolling through Havana’s so-called “casco histórico,” its colonial center, can … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Architecture, Colonialism, Cuba, Disease, Empire, Ethnicity, Havana, Latin America, Race, Spatial History
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Black London: Two New Books on the Postcolonial British Capital
Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 414 pp., $29.95 / £22.95, ISBN: 9780520284302 Kennetta Hammond Perry, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the … Continue reading
The Palais After Dark: Two Histories of British Dance Halls
James Nott, Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918–1960, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015, 327 pp, £65.00, ISBN 978-0199605194. Dave Haslam, Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Britain, Europe, Gender, Music, Race, Social History, Youth
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What’s in a Grid? Finding the Form of Settler Colonialism in Melbourne
Nadia Rhook, La Trobe University In recent years Melburnians have been educated about an episode of Australian history previously little known in non-Indigenous circles. A play, Coranderrk: we will show the country, has been performed in theatres around Melbourne, and this … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Australia, Colonialism, Dispossession, Empire, Environment, Ethnicity, Migration, Race, Spatial History
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