Spring 2023
Welcome to the Colonialism & Postcolonialism Journal for ANTH 461. This journal exhibits our collective engagement with postcoloniality and decoloniality. Each piece in this journal is the product of our joint and individual examinations of theory and some aspect of the colonial condition from across the globe.
Africa
- A Portrait of the (Ugandan) Artist as a (Colonial Subject): Subaltern Subjectivities and Art Education at Margaret Trowell’s Makerere by Michael Baird
- Chocolate and Children: A Colonial Trade Unveiled by Jaylon Crisp
- Socialist Planning in Mali by Nathanaël Micolod
- The Legacy of Racism in South Africa Through a Postcolonial Lens by Tarleton Hunt
Asia
- A Tribute to M. Butterfly: A Postcolonial Masterpiece by Erica Boey
- Communality vs. Community: The Promise of Panchayats by Maitreyee Singh
- Echoes of Colonialism: The Socio-Political Implications of “RRR” by Jackson Plemmons
- “How do you live?” by Jennifer Tran
- Resistance Through Art by Durga Sreenivasan
- The Gift of Ganja: A Screenplay Exploring Cannabis Studies in British India by Kaitlyn Dang
- Ungovernable Histories: Transness and Healing the Scar by Newton Wainscott
Australia
- Problematising Colour-Blind Race Ideology in Australia – and Seeking Promise in Pluriversal First Nations Ontological Designs by Lucien Noël
Europe
- Peeking at Black Britain Through the Diachronic Looking Lens: An analysis of the lives of Black Britain post-World War II by Safa Tonuzi
- Scotland as Colonized and Colonizer by Katelin Harmon
Middle East
- Promoting an Equitable Postcolonial Future for Palestine and Israel: The Role of the BDS Movement by Ahmed El-Halabi
- The Deeper the Root: Archaeology and Nationalism in Israel by Chrissy Stamey
North America
- Lives of the Lacandón Maya by Diego M. Almaraz
- Remembering the Forgotten: The Lost History of a Mexican Sugar Plantation by Kaitlyn Clingenpeel
- Empowered by Ink: Traditional Tattooing in Native American Women’s Decolonization and Reclamation of Identity by Ila Chilberg
- The Effect of Colonization on Indigenous Gender and Sexuality by Abby Winterich-Knox
- Colonial Past in the Present: U.S Food System and African American Culture by Jenny Huang
- Is Addition Oppressive? Colonialism in Mathematics, and Recursion to the Present Day by Andrew Sun
- Meditations on Silences: Researching Robert F. Williams and Encountering Cornell Watson by Madison Holt
- Recursivity in the Control of Movements of People in the United States by Samuel Loyack
- The Materiality of Chemicals: Understanding Temporality and Recursivity through Petrochemical Plants by Regina Lowe
- Excerpts from My Capstone Project: “Pa’lante, Siempre Pa’lante”…But Toward What? Imagining Status Alternatives and Bringing Possibility Back into Discussions of Puerto Rico’s Future” by Kayla McManus-Viana
- The Effects of Colonialism on Hawaii by Lindsay Simpson
- The Ontological Turn: A Postcolonial Reimagining of the Native Hawaiian’s Murder of Captain Cook by Isabella Soluri
Miscellaneous
- Lessons from Machiavelli’s Prince by Levin Low
- The Doctor-Colonizer: Colonial Knowledge and Knowledge Production in Tropical Medicine by Kayris Baggett
- The Legacy of Colonialism in Institutional Archives by Saisha Dhar
- by Kannu Taylor