The Long Shadow of White Supremacy in U.S. Foreign Policy

Alex Langer (Ph.D., CU Boulder, 2020) examines the long legacy of white supremacy in US foreign policy. Last month on Erstwhile, Sarah Luginbill examined the long history of misinformation, bad history, and blatant lies that have led racists and white supremacists to embrace the Middle Ages as an Anglo-Saxon utopia. This week, I want to…

Ghosts at the Feast: Britain, Memorials, and the Specter of Empire

Amid Confederate memorial debates in the U.S., and in the second installment of our series “The Monuments Among Us,” Erstwhile contributor Travis R. May (PhD candidate, CU Boulder) reflects on memorialization in Britain and parts of its former empire. The first in our series treats Bears Ears National Monument. In 1877, the British viceroy Lord Lytton organized…

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The Long Shadow of White Supremacy in U.S. Foreign Policy

Ghosts at the Feast: Britain, Memorials, and the Specter of Empire