The Africana Studies Department and the Puerto Rican Association engaged the University community in a discussion of the issues different colonies in the Caribbean currently face after Hurricanes Irma ...

Many scholars have studied the effects of colonial management on terrestrial resources—but what about the effect of colonialism on bodies of water? A new article in Isis: A Journal of the History of ...

The fire that devastated the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this month was made all the worse by the deep-rooted effects of colonialism. As the recovery process begins, Native Hawaiians see an ...

A new book by sociology professor and College of Law affiliate Jose Atiles at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign examines Puerto Rico’s struggles under its colonial relationship with the U.S.

On Nov. 6, the projector in the Martinos Auditorium of the Granoff Center for Creative Arts lit up with the sharp, colorful scenes of Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s film “This is Not a Burial, It’s a ...

Human activities have always shaped both biological and cultural diversity. An international team led by the University of Vienna has now investigated the link between the threat to species and that ...

Transcending conquest: bioarchaeological perspectives on conquest and culture contact for the twenty-first century / Melissa S. Murphy and Haagen D. Klaus -- Life, death, and mortuary practices after ...

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe in his Portland, Oregon studio. Photo by Mark Mirocha. Courtesy of COMA Gallery In March of this year, Otis Quaicoe traveled to Australia on a research trip ahead of his solo ...

Indigenous peoples across the country are beginning to tell their own stories through cuisine and traditional food. For decades, colonialism influenced the way they gathered, prepared, and ate food.

1. Intimate encounters: an archaeology of sexualities within colonial worlds / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Barbara L. Voss -- 2. Sexual effects: postcolonial and queer perspectives on the archaeology ...

I was just in the Philippines recently, where I saw skin-whitening products and clinics everywhere. It is also where I saw the pervasive vestiges of Western colonial influences, from the widespread ...