Ronald Young Jr.
Ronald Young Jr., host of Solvable, is an audio producer and storyteller based in Alexandria, VA. He is the Senior Producer and Owner of ohitsBigRon studios, which produces such shows…
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Wayne Modest is the Director of Content for the National Museum of Worldcultures and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam and head of the Research Center of Material Culture. He is also professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Modest was previously, head of the curatorial department at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum in London, and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography in Kingston, Jamaica.
Additional resources that Dr. Modest recommends:
Decolonize This Place
https://decolonizethisplace.org/faxxx-1
Rhodes Must Fall
Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage by Felwine Sarr and
Bénédicte Savoy
http://restitutionreport2018.com/sarr_savoy_en.pdf
Potential History, Unlearning Imperialism
by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3079-potential-history
History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas by Wilson Harris and Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris
Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities) By Brenna Bhandar
https://www.indiebound.org/buy-local/9780822371465
Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
By David Scott
https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=omens+of+adversity
Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire by Henrietta Lidchi, Stuart Allan, Alan Lester
https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=Henrietta+Lidchi+dividing+the+spoils+
Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah Thomas,
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Peter Tosh, Equal Rights
Bob Marley, Babylon System
Vybz Kartel: Reparations
Burning Spear, Days of Slavery
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