Unforgettable Differences & the Intersection of Race, Gender and Colonialism

Anticolonial movements after World War II are linked to the quest for civil rights for minorities in America. Protests and solidarity movements unite them around common experiences of inequality. Their calls for liberation from discriminatory policies and practices in the U.S. mirror those of Third World countries oppressed by years of colonial rule. U.S. domestic and foreign policies often follow a similar trajectory in responding to all of these movements as surveillance, sabotage, propaganda and violence became strategic tools for limiting the spread of disruptive ideas and re-establishing a new colonial order that needed to maintain access to cheap labor, natural resources, international markets and strategic geographical locations. This Matrix Map will provide opportunities for you to explore how colonialism in the context of the African Diaspora manifests and reflects differences associated with race, gender and class. Also, it reveals the ways the three often coalesce as systems of difference and easily split under the weight of competing visions of democracy and structuralism.

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