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Lily Snowden-Fine - Thistle (2023)

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just outside my grandma’s kitchen

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Feels Like Home (2023)

Art Gallery of Ontario

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A woman on her way out in Dakar, Senegal

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Oceanus Aethiopicus?

Ethiopian Sea?

Atlantic Ocean???

Interesting....

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The word "tribe" can have negative connotations for Westerners. These connotations include:

Primitivity

Denoting an era of uncivilization that Westerners have evolved from

Prejudice

Describing situations where people negatively pit themselves as a group against others

Savage

For European missionaries and explorers who went out to conquer people, the word “tribal” was synonymous to “savage” and “primitive”

Myth of primitive African timelessness

The concept of tribe became a cornerstone for European colonial rule in Africa

Jan 25, 2021 — (Ironically, I have a degree in anthropology and I think it's a fascinating discipline; Good thing my favorite anthro professor back in my university days wisely recommended that we understand the controversies around the term.) Truth be told, it offends many people. Here's why: #1 For European missionaries and explorers who went out to conquer people, the word “tribal” was synonymous to “savage” and “primitive.” It's mainstream connotation is rooted in colonial-era racist ideology. The word immediately conjures stereotypical imagery of brown people with bones in their noses or naked warriors running around in a rainforest.

The East African

So you belong to a tribe? Are you primitive, barbaric ... or savage? - The East African

Jul 21, 2020 — Personal Offensiveness. ... "Tribe" promotes a myth of African timelessness. In the West, "tribal" often implies "savage" "Tribe" reflects widespread bu outdated 19th-century social theory. The concept of tribe became a cornerstone for European colonial rule in Africa.

The term “tribe” is vague,

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Happy Black History YEAR!

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Comoros Woman

Africa ca 1910

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This or nothing.