
Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram
The Dig
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The Debt Crisis in the 19 Eighties
The 19 eighties was the decade when the idea that caribbean, latin american and especially african countries were cor incompetent and perpetually impoverished. That period of the debt crisis also was really important, because it was this moment that obscure the very history that we've been discussing. In doing so, turned cause and effect on its head, emphasizing this pathologized third world as the cause of its own problems.
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