Larry Achiampong and David Blandy explore the impact of eugenics, scientific racism and Black resistance: https://web.archive.org/web/20250930203332/https://www.bcaexhibits.org/exhibits/challenging-the-narrative via @FINOkoye
#historyOfScience #science #raceMaking #institutionsDeceive #racism
This thread will show bits of a history of the extreme centre 🧶
#coup #oligarchy #extremeCentre #extremeCenter #history #Athens #FrenchState #AncientGreece #Antiquity #history #democracy #defeat #Republic #raceMaking #stateRacism #complicity #entanglement #farCentre #farCenter
"Solidarity can not truly exist until non-white people see the ways they are complicit with and benefit from silencing Black voices, narrowing Black narratives and ultimately denying Black realities. As non-white people, we are used to gauging ourselves in terms of our proximity to whiteness."
Jordan Howard: https://archive.is/RGn55
#collaboration #identity #complicity #bias #whiteSupremacy #coloniality #decolonial #racism #antiRacism #sociology #raceMaking #USA #USPol #quotes #militancy #whiteness
People domesticated sugar around 8,000 BCE in New Guinea. The technique of chemically refining sugar first emerged in India about 2,500 years ago, and this knowledge spread towards China, Iran, and the early Islamic worlds.
"By the fourteenth century, Cyprus and Sicily had become important Mediterranean producers of sugar for the Europeans. This success encouraged Europeans to expand the sugar industry to the Atlantic Islands, South America, and the Americas. By the time of Elizabeth I’s and James I’s rule, increasing amounts of sugar was brought from sugar plantations (engenhos) in Brazil. These engenhos demanded the enforced labour of indigenous peoples, and, increasingly, enslaved Africans, who would work in appalling conditions to crush the sugarcane, extract the juice, and boil this juice at a hot temperature to produce sugar molasses, which would be shipped to Europe in large barrels called hogsheads."
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/sugar/
Plantations industrialised with capitalism.
Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶
@economics @histodons @geography
#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon
"We should first examine how colonisation works to decivilise the coloniser, to literally dumb them down, to degrade them, to awaken them to buried instincts, to greed, to violence, to racial hatred, to ethical relativism."
Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme", 1950
#entanglement #othering #civilisation #lineOfColor #raceMaking #beliefs #squash #brutalization #complicity #epistemology #coloniality #genocide #racism #colonialism #Césaire #AiméCésaire #whiteness #quote #quotes #citation
'Europe’s narrative is constructed on the exclusion of colonialism from its history, allowing the ideology of Europe’s racelessness. […] The disremembering of the colonial past shapes the contemporary perception of Europe as a progressive well-intentioned neutral mediator. Moreover, this colonial amnesia produces Europeans of color as outsiders and “aliens” threatening to the liberal continent’s identity.'
'Thus, racialized Europeans are forever “just arriving” and forgotten in the construction of a contemporary European identity. The book gives examples of continent’s Roma and Sinti populations who have resided in Europe for half a millennium and are constantly marginalized as foreigners.'
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#activism #culture #identity #norms #normality #Europeanness #whiteness #raceMaking #racialization #ElTayeb #Europe #postColonialism #racelessness #colorblind #raceMaking #colourblind #racism #diaspora #Belgium #France #Netherlands #NL #Germany #Austria #Italy #Spain #Portugal #Hungary #postNational
"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."
"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."
This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."
https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros
#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement
"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros
“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror
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#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking
"In terms of racial identity, white Americans have had the choice of being something vague, something unraced and separate from race. A capitalized "White" challenges that freedom, by unmasking Whiteness as an American racial identity as historically important as "Blackness" — which it certainly is."
~ Nell Irvin Painter: https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/nell-irvin-painter-why-white-should-be-capitalized-too via @breton 🧶
#raceMaking #entitlement #bias #whiteSupremacy #coloniality #decolonial #racism #antiRacism #sociology #USA #USPol #quotes #militancy #Americans #Whiteness #American #identity #blackMastodon #NellIrvinPainter
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