Alex White
alexjwhite.bsky.social
Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
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In the late nineteenth century, Black American missionaries began to work within King Leopold's Congo. For Black History month, Adrita Mitra explores how women like Nora Gordon navigated the tensions between emancipation and colonial rule.
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This is really interesting. The struggles of cognitively disabled people raising questions about how human rights are conceived of. Read while bearing in mind that today's eugenics-adjacent new utilitarians consider cognitively disabled people to be less than fully human.
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Highly recommend exploring all that Beckie has done for the HW digital magazine!
Show Post'Martial arts ... was made legible as technical cooperation: a form of foreign aid in which one government provides expertise, training, or services to another.' Inhae Yap explores the politics of aid in the Cold War and today.
Show PostIn 1977, the South Korean government agreed to send taekwondo instructors to the West African republic of Upper Volta. Inhae Yap explains what the exchange can tell us about the politics of aid in the Cold War and today.
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