…us without the violences of war, migration, US imperialism, colonization. It has been healing to share this poem with other Salvadorans, Central Americans, and diasporas beyond these specific contexts, to…
…the English colonies. I thought maybe in the second half of the class, we would talk about Spanish colonization in other parts of the United States. But that never came!…
…Spanish too. Timestorm Imperialism and settler-colonialism has erased the true, ancient histories of hundreds of cultures around the world. Puerto Rico, one of the still extant American colonies of the…
…British Royal Family. This same family was the colonial power that ruled over 65 countries that have since claimed their independence, from Afghanistan to Zambia. Even watching The Crown, I…
…responsibility. Whiteness is a tool that Latinx folks are far too familiar with. From colonization to today, proximity to whiteness continues to play a role in how easy success can…
…trips abroad (it IS the closest) with episodes focusing on Mexico and Costa Rica (and the third, Morocco). In a slight to colonizers everywhere, the show doesn’t even bother with…
…rather in the aftermath of colonization and the ensuing, fraught mixing of our ancestors’ cultures. We’re “ni de aquí, ni de allá” no matter where we are or presumably, how…
…‘fun’ you expect from YA series, and, though there were instances of magic and lore, the series is, at best, a mythical reflection of colonialism… Frankly, I think what makes…
…be more than the relationships she has with the men around her, more than a white woman holding back what the colonist sees as a sea of brown bodies. She…
…– this country was founded and built by colonizers and slaveowners. It shouldn’t surprise anyone. We haven’t reckoned with our racist foundation in a meaningful way. America has been using…
