Racist coins created after World War I : The Watch on the Rhine / The Black Shame
The very evocative imagery employed on this medal, with it’s a crude caricature of the French colonial soldier and it’s allusion to rape and sexual...
Category : International
Chocolate Candy Hands still sold in Belgium despite Congo Genocide of King Leopold
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On February 5th, the Kaplan Institute had the pleasure of welcoming distinguished art history scholars Todd Porterfield (Université de Montréal) and Deborah Silverman (UCLA) to...
The Arawak People
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The Arawak people, also known as the Lokono in some contexts, represent one of the most widespread and influential Indigenous groups in the pre-Columbian Americas....
The Caribs People
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The Caribs, also known as the Kalinago, are an indigenous people of the Caribbean. They are believed to have originally migrated from the Orinoco River...
The Taíno people
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The Taíno people were a pre-Columbian indigenous group who inhabited the Caribbean islands, including present-day Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico,...
What is ‘The British Empire’?
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The British Empire was the most extensive in world history. It was a product of the European Age of Discovery in the late 15th century....
Viola Desmond
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Born and raised in the vibrant yet segregated community of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Viola Desmond grew up as one of ten children in a family...
Samuel Sharpe
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Samuel Sharpe: The Courageous Leader of Jamaica’s General Strike Samuel Sharpe, born in 1801 in Jamaica, was a remarkable figure in the fight for freedom...
Africa before Transatlantic Enslavement
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade not only distorted Africa’s economic development but also distorted views of the history and importance of the African continent itself. It...
John Hawkins
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John Hawkins, the second son of wealthy West Country merchant trader William Hawkins, was born in Plymouth. His early voyages to the Spanish-held Canary Islands...