One Past, Two Futures: Britain’s Conflicted Path to Decolonisation
This essay explores how public responses to the statues of Edward Colston in Bristol and Cecil Rhodes in Oxford expose tensions within Britain’s collective memory.
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The Purpose of Power: How we come together when we fall apart
Alicia Garza is co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter and of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. In her book, The Purpose of Power, she critically reviews the movement’s genesis. Garza’s main message to her readers is that a hashtag doesn’t usually start a movement. Behind movements stand people, and sometimes years or decades of dedication to a political cause, as she describes in detail in nearly 400 pages. But a hashtag can give it greater, even global, visibility.
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The Yellow House
Written in the style of a memoir, Broome’s book charts the complex histories of her own family as well as that of her hometown, New Orleans.
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Ohren auf No. 2: poco. lit.s liebste Podcast Episoden
This month we share our favorite podcast episodes with you again. The selected episodes are about racism on different continents, racism in relation to the literary market and language, the current Black Lives Matter protests and diversity as a trend.
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