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Julian Cola
Ungentrifying International News Reporting from Brazil to Ecuador and Beyond
24 Jun 2020
So-called “racial democracy” has systematically excluded and kept black people at the dirt end of the socioeconomic totem pole in Brazil, as reflected in its media.
Julian Cola
Reparations Hypocrisy: God Bless The Liberal That’s Got His Own
30 Nov 2016
by Julian Cola After two and a quarter centuries, legions of Americans are calling for repair of the U.S. voting system by abolishing the Electoral College. However, white liberals just “lost an…
Julian Cola
Letter from Brazil: Before There Was Liberation Theology There Was Candomblé
23 Mar 2016
by Julian Cola “Liberation theology,” a progressive interpretation of Christianity that gained traction in the mid-20th century, was long preceded by African-based religions such as Brazil’s…
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Elvis, Donny Hathaway and the Daft Hollywood Paradigm
21 Dec 2015
by Julian Cola Hollywood is one of U.S. imperialism’s greatest assets, hyping a world in which all things “super” are white – and speak English. “Media exploitation had famished many of my students’…
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Rewind: Is Jazz America’s Greatest Artform?
18 Nov 2015
by Julian Cola The United States is expert at expropriating other people’s property: land, bodies and culture. It has expropriated jazz, alienating the art form from the people that created it, who…
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Brazil Welcomes Dr. Carl Hart
28 Oct 2015
by Julian Cola Brazil, with the largest Black population outside of Africa, attempts to perpetuate the myth that it is a “racial democracy.” If so, it is an incredibly violent one. “Ban Ki-moon, the…