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Battledream Chronicle: Lame Name, Awesome Film | movingblack
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Middle passage, emigration, immigration, windrush, backpacking…crossing seas is different when you're black. Battledream Chronicle: Lame Name, Awesome Film. The plot is also more nuanced than I’ve made it sound. The film illustrates the power of memory, specifically the victors’ ability to manipulate collective memory, and the impact on the other players, which in a country where history as a subject is simply not taught seriously, (as I attempted to demonstrate here. Is quite a radical message. Battledr...
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ROFL!! : When Teaching History Meets Colonialism in Martinique | movingblack
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Middle passage, emigration, immigration, windrush, backpacking…crossing seas is different when you're black. When Teaching History Meets Colonialism in Martinique. I love Martinique. Love it! What had me laughing so hard I felt compelled to blog about it? Slavery – history versus the discourse here? The state of education in contemporary Martinique? I’ll let you decide. Literal translation: traditional Martinican creole garden) into. As in the language. So that creole-speaking students learning to read a...
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Broken News: How To Save International Bureaus | movingblack
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Middle passage, emigration, immigration, windrush, backpacking…crossing seas is different when you're black. Broken News: How To Save International Bureaus. The bureau is a beautiful old Kabul house with a beautiful green lawn. However, that old house is only for the foreign journalists, says Ali M. Latifi, an Afghan-American journalist living in Kabul, about the. Latifi, who reports for the. He spoke of issues related to ownership and representation that have been compromised in the way international ne...
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Unrealistic Blacks | movingblack
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Middle passage, emigration, immigration, windrush, backpacking…crossing seas is different when you're black. I think this is why people sometimes are surprised that I, a black woman who travels for fun, can exist. They’ve not seen someone like me on TV cos a studio exec somewhere reckons the character would come across as ‘unrealistic’! Loving how the bounds of possibility are illustrated here: one man terrorism fighting machine (Jack Bauer)? Possible. Black president he reports to? Tuesday 28th Jul 2015.
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Make Contact | movingblack
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Middle passage, emigration, immigration, windrush, backpacking…crossing seas is different when you're black. If you need to get in touch, please drop me an email at londoniennenubienne[at]gmail.com. I’m always happy to brainstorm a brilliant idea, discuss a cool idea, or just chat. FANCY WOOFing IN MARTINIQUE? Looking for thoughtful travel pieces from a black female perspective? FAIR USE POLICY FOR MOVINGBLACK CONTENT. I have a Fair Use Policy; feel free to use 10% or up to 400 words of my work without l...
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Ms movingblack | movingblack
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Middle passage, emigration, immigration, windrush, backpacking…crossing seas is different when you're black. Author Archives: Ms movingblack. I'm a young black traveller passionate about enjoying life, social justice and understanding history, and politics. I call it how I see it, but I usually think about it first. Sometimes I Want To Write. I need to write. Not for you dear reader, nor even for me, but because as Chimamanda once argued, there really is a danger in a single story. What does that change?
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