colonialism
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“Most people don’t know that La Bamba is a 400-year-old Afro-Mexican song… this song that survived colonialism and. slavery,” Flores explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
This is evident in the depiction of Kip, a Sikh man finding his way in the English world of colonialism.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
"We won the battle against slavery, we won the battle against colonialism, we won the battle against apartheid, and we are confident that we shall win the battle against reparatory injustice," Ablakwa told the conference.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Exhibition text here acknowledges the impact of Japanese colonialism on modern Korean painting, but the story stays with the artists, showing how they built internal support networks to define Korean modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Until the end of colonialism, she suggested, researchers tended to work in their own countries’ possessions.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Human Geography - Middle School
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