Decolonizing Content w/ NUC Black Archives

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.”

Simone Zeefuik over #DecolonizingtheMuseum in Leiden (2016)

Racist tweets towards Asians, Black people and Native Americans

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.

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

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