Familial Feeling
Editorial: Springer Nature
Licencia: Creative Commons (by)
Autor(es): Haschemi, Elahe
When I began working on this book in 2011, the 2007 bicentennial of the
abolition of the slave trade still felt recent.1 There were new flms, exhibitions, and a plethora of events commemorating and refecting Britain's
involvement in this global system of injustice on a larger national scale.
More than a decade after these events, the country appeared to have moved on being consumed by the internal fallout and ongoing tensions around Brexit. However, in 2020, the commemoration of enslavement again entered the public spotlight invigorated by the anti-racist protests in reaction to police violence in the United States and across the globe. More and more vocal groups like Black Lives Matter no longer accept the unchallenged adulation of slaveholders and those who profted from colonial exploitation in the form of statues and monuments. In Bristol protesters took matters into their own hands toppling the statue of Edward Colston and throwing it into the harbour. Similar acts can be witnessed worldwide.
[Germany: 2021]
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