... systems of knowledge and life forms and of the colonial inheritance and epistemicide. The article follows various historical events, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor's encounter with African art in Paris after World War I and the British colonial destruction of the Kingdom of Benin in 1897; turns...

.... Niebyliski, Dianna C., and Patrick O’Connor, eds. 2014. Latin American Icons: Fame across Borders . Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Rappaport, Joanne. 2014. The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Reeves...

... in the 1930s, or Nazi Germany in the 1940s, or Algeria under colonial rule in the 1960s, or even the Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, or Bosnia during the war in the 1990s. In fact, it is a word that comes up wherever “serious human rights violations”—as we now call them—have been committed. We...