In the early 1950s, the United States was in the midst of heated debate about the Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation in the South. No doubt inspired by the ongoing national debate, the historian C. Vann Woodward began researching the history of...
In the last several years, I have noticed more and more history educators discussing strategies for writing and teaching “usable histories”. It certainly is a catchy phrase. It resonates with most historians, as we spend a fair amount of energy defending the utility...
As someone born in the Caribbean but who lives in Canada, I relish opportunities to read and listen to Caribbean perspectives on global events. For that reason, whenever I travel to the region, I try to read local newspapers and make an effort to engage with local...
Walter Rodney. Photo credit: Huntley Archives, London Metropolitan Archives. To colonise something is to undertake a political act. Hence any efforts at decolonisation must also be understood as a political act. Furthermore, if we take this line of...
