JSTOR’s tidy little history lesson reveals something real, but only after liberal scholarship scrubs the auction block clean enough for polite readers. Beneath the archive sits a system that turned rape, forced birth, and hereditary bondage into law, credit, and capital. The real story is not bad science gone astray, but a slave order using... Continue Reading →
From “Much Abuse” to World Domination: How the Los Angeles Times Manages the Memory of Conquest
This Weaponized Propaganda Excavation shows how the Los Angeles Times reduces colonial conquest to the language of diplomatic regret and historical moderation. It reconstructs the underlying reality of that conquest as a system of mass death, forced labor, and global resource extraction. It reframes this process as the foundation of the modern capitalist world economy... Continue Reading →