Category: Settler colonialism

The United Fruit Company – Banana Plantations 1899

Post author By Emily
Post date February 16, 2021
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Man carrying a bunch of banana over shoulder onto railcart. Banana palms are seen peeking out above the rail cart.

The concept of western entities occupying, governing, and exploiting natural resources and native people from “foreign” places around the world has been heavily documented in the relation to sugar and cotton plantations however, similar practices were and still being executed in a wide range of fields. In 1899 the United Fruit Company was formed, being […]

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Central Park, 1858: “Public” Space and Black Land Dispossession in Antebellum New York

Post author By Nat Harvie
Post date February 16, 2021
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In 1857, Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux won the design competition for New York’s iconic Central Park with their “Greensward Plan”. This design carried a pastoral vision and the stated intent to “supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers,who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of […]