The Reconsider Columbus Day and Transform Colombus Day campaigns aim to abolish Colombus Day in the U.S. and instead establish a national holiday for Native Americans and critically commemorate conquest, colonialism and genocide.
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A multi-award winning anthology of contributions to current processes of negotiation of Native American identity and culture in the United States. MariJo Moore (ed.) 2003: Genocide of the Mind. New Native American Writing. New York: Nation Books.
A unique anthology of contributions by 20 Native authors* on the history of the genocide of Native Americans in North America. MariJo Moore (ed.) 2006: Eating Fire Tasting Blood. An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.
On her Beyond Buckskin website on Native fashion, Dr. Jessica R. Metcalfe blogs very interestingly on cultural appropriation as well as Native history and current activism. With T-shirts like “Native Americans discovered Columbus,” she produces political fashion.
On her blog Native appropriations – representations matter, Dr. Adrienne Keene discusses current representations, stereotypes, and cultural appropriation of Native Americans in the U.S. as well as current Native activism.
On his blog Red Haircrow regularly publishes exciting poems, articles and interviews. Like, for example, here, again and again about the portrayal of Native Americans in Germany.
Detailed blog entry on ringelmiez about the question: “Why I don’t sew Indian costumes for my children” with many further links as well as a reflection of the debate the article has caused. Ella and Jasna 2015: Cultural appropriation and everyday racism in carnival: why I don’t sew Indian costumes for my children. ringelmiez
The trigger for the non-union strike at Ford in Cologne in 1973 was that over 300 Turkish workers had extended their four-week annual leave on their own and were subsequently fired.
This article by Chandra-Milena Danielzik and Daniel Bendix highlights that “racism and exoticism cannot be separated [sind]: [Denn] exoticism is an inherent part, a variety of racism.” In its exposition of how exoticization works, the article highlights the intertwining of racism and sexism.
In this song and video, the hip hop crew Dookoom addresses the exploitative working and living conditions of farm workers in South Africa.
Here you can find current information about the Qom resistance movement in Argentina. The Qom are an indigenous group living mainly in northeastern Argentina who have long fought for land rights, their right to self-determination, and against repression.
While thousands of people drown in the Mediterranean Sea or are deported by force, Germany’s political and cultural establishment celebrated itself as cosmopolitan, humane and liberal on Friday, June 12, 2015 in a small circle of invited guests.