![]() ![]() ![]() Oprah’s March 2021 TV interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, in which questions of skin color and royal entitlement were raised, further foregrounded the pet obsessions of elites with race and bloodline as indices of inclusion and belonging.Ĭorinne Fowler’s Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections arrives at a timely juncture, with many of its themes and concerns generating attention through a maelstrom of political and media vitriol from angsty conservatives. ![]() A prominent seventeenth-century merchant and Tory member of parliament, Colston’s statuary presence stood as a reminder that slavery and imperial politics were historically yoked to the rapacious greed of social elites. Radical campaigns in the United States were followed by All Black Lives UK marches, which featured the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol. The past year alone saw a new wave of organized protests launched by Black Lives Matter in response to entrenched cultures of violence and systemic racism in the United States. Debates around race, empire, and slavery continue to make headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. ![]()
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