What We're Reading This Week
Zaib un Nisa Aziz
Zadie Smith, What Do We Want History to Do to Us? The New York Review of Books
Alison Light, Behind the Green Baize Door, London Review of Books
Cindy Ewing
Adom Getachew, Imbolo Mbue, Omar Victor Diop, Bozoma Saint John, Wayetu Moore, Didier Drogba, David Adjaye, Dinaw Mengestu, Luvvie Ajayi, "What Does Independence Look Like? Reflections on 1960, the Year of Africa", The New York Times
Madhav Nayar, "The History of Student Protests in India", The Wire
Jon Piccini,"For Australia to be respected on human rights, it needs to look deeper into its own record", The Conversation
Anna Burgess, "Harvard librarian puts this war crime on the map", The Harvard Gazette
Julia Klimova
In the West, there is no awareness that Poland was a country subjected to imperial exploitation. An interview with Professor Andrzej Nowak., Polonia Institute
Gergely Károly, "Democracy Digest: The Two Faces of Hungary's 'Trianon Tragedy'", Reporting Democracy
"Disaster in Albania: The CIA's First Covert Mission", The Cold War History Blog.
Ralph Eubanks, "The Unheald Wounds of a Mass Arrest of Black Students at Ole Miss, Fifty Years Later", The New Yorker
Joel van de Sande
Neama Alamri, "Yemeni Farm Workers and the Politics of Arab Nationalism in the UFW", Boom California
Liat Spiro
Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez, "The Supreme Court may have just made violence against immigrant children more likely", Washington Post
Adam Tooze, "How 'Big Law' Makes Big Money", The New York Review of Books
Christopher Szabla
Paul French, "From one-time Chinese capital to coronavirus epicenter, Wuhan has a long history that the West had forgotten", CNN
Houri Berberian, "Roving revolutionaries: Moving between the Russian, Iranian and Young Turk revolutions, cosmopolitan Armenians helped usher in the 20th century", Aeon
Nicholas Andrew Martin Rodger, "Skilled in the tactics of 1870", London Review of Books