![]() Many scholars doing thoughtful, critical work are nonetheless expected to think about their objects of study within imperial timelines that make ideas such as “US history,” “Israeli art,” or the “end” of WWII (or “war” itself), their points of reference and the unquestioned assumptions of their research. Scholars’ acceptance of imperial categories of knowledge is one symptom of how scholarship is shaped more broadly along the spatial, temporal, and political terms first set by imperialism. Many scholars in different disciplines write about imperial crimes as their object of study - that is, as something sealed in the past that can be separated from the reparations due. That the necessity of reparations has lost its obviousness and “the case for reparations” has to be written once and again, cannot be explained without asking about the complicity of academic institutions. “Reparations” is the straightforward answer to structural violence. ![]() ![]() #FreeRenty (All rights reserved by Shonrael Lanier, SVG on Demand) ![]()
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