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The British Caribbean today is defined in the global imagination by Afro-West Indian culture. Reggae, calypso, Rastafarianism, carnival, and the distinctive Creole dialects have become central to how outsiders view the region and how the region views itself. (more…)
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Jeff Flynn-Paul
Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World
New York-Nashville: Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press, 2023
. . . [N]early all the stereotypes about American Indians that the Left holds dear are traceable to the naivete of the 1970s progressive movement. Almost all these stereotypes arose in white, middle-class American households; they generally reflect liberal talking points such as environmentalism, anti-capitalism, and the peace movement. (more…)
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Dante’s Inferno
Dante Alighieri’s conceptual map of Hell also lay at the intersection where biblical and classical ideas about the afterlife crossed. Virgil, fellow Italian poet and ancient Roman author of the Æneid, accompanied him during much of his journey, for Virgil was someone who had imagined his own hero Aeneas successfully navigating the underworld. (more…)