Decolonizing Content w/ NUC Black Archives

Imagery and language about people of African descent is often biased. Due to the history of slavery and colonialism, its intertwined with prejudices and fantasy. This Tumblr of NUC aims to deconstruct imagery and language about Black people. More info:...

[patricioshotit]

[historical-nonfiction]

An alternative-history map – what Africa might have looked like if it was never colonized by Europeans. Drawn with south as up, to reverse the Eurocentric bias of north-is-up maps, it was compiled using historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data by Nikolaj Cyon.

[gogomrbrown]

Gentrification is the new colonialism

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

“Welcome to Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire. This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written by our academic research team.

The Colonial Film project united universities (Birkbeck and University College London) and archives (British Film Institute, Imperial War Museum and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum) to create a new catalogue of films relating to the British Empire. The ambition of this website is to allow both colonizers and colonized to understand better the truths of Empire.”

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

4 Reasons 'People of Color' Isn't Always the Best Choice of Words

“People of color” is the correct term for people who aren’t white, right? Well, it depends on what you’re trying to say. This will help you make sure you’re not being hurtful.

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

Orange is the New Black is Trauma Porn Written for White People [spoilers]

[ALERT! MAJOR SPOILERS WITHIN THIS ARTICLE!] Oh. My. Fucking. God. The new season of Orange

[fomysquad]

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

“A cop in Pennsylvania is out of two jobs after posting a picture of herself in uniform to social media and using a racial slur, officials said.

The white officer was a recently hired part-time officer who was training as a probationary employee. The image, which was posted on Snapchat and made its way to other platforms, showed Adamson taking a selfie in uniform with the caption:

                    “I’m the law today n***a.”

Adamson also worked as a part-time police officer in Versailles, Pa.

source Anyone else notice female officers seem to be the only ones facing any concequences”

[rachelstewartjewelry]

[highreevecain-deactivated202502]

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

Simone Zeefuik over #DecolonizingtheMuseum in Leiden (2016)

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

Racist tweets towards Asians, Black people and Native Americans

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

Dutch Antillean rapper Fresku’ song about what it means to be a Black rapper in the Netherlands: about the cultural appropiation of rap music, high  appreciation for white rappers and low acknowlegdment of Black people in the mainstream ‘hiphop’ scene and the power/control of air play on the radio.

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

Frontpage of Dutch university magazine portrays the colonial obsession with (half)naked Black women to expore “diversity” at the university.

[nucdecolonizingcontent]

Gloria Wekker in Vrij Nederland on Dutch racim (2016): “White innocense does not exist”

https://www.vn.nl/weekblad/witte-onschuld-bestaat/