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You need to read about Palestine
The Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation and decolonization cannot be just an afterthought for North American leftism, as Angela Davis succinctly puts it. In the same page, Davis points out an insidious catchphrase and deterrent to the Palestinian cause – “It’s so complicated” (read: too complicated to deal with, to read up on, to speak…
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Settler mythologies: Grace Kwan, ‘Colonialism and National Myth-Making in Canadian Museums’, The Society, 5, 1, 2020
Originally posted on settler colonial studies blog: Abstract: Canadian national mythology promotes the widespread idea of a peaceful, tolerant, multicultural nation built by and composed of immigrants. This mythology functions to sustain the ongoing settler colonialism and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Using a case study of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in…