Category: Colonization
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Cxffeeblack’s Mission to Decolonize the Coffee Industry – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Coffee is a $430 billion dollar industry amassed off the labor of Black and Brown people. Yet, African countries—where the plant has always grown or was forced to grow due to colonialism—make less than one percent of that money. While the industry has increasingly tried to re-think its practices, particularly where sustainability is concerned, […]
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I Killed Captain Cook – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] The demise of James Cook is legendary—especially in Polynesia and Australasia, where the English explorer was responsible for a tremendous amount of colonization. In 1779, Cook and his men attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu—the chief of the island of Hawaii—under the guise of showing him their ship. Thousands of Hawaiian people gathered on the beach […]
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Ghana’s Kantamanto Market at the Center of “Obroni Wawu” – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Located in Accra, Ghana, Kantamanto Market is the largest second-hand apparel market in West Africa—and it’s brimming with clothes from North America, the UK, China, Korea and Australia. It’s partly “waste management” for those countries (and has a devastating effect on Ghana, as tons of this clothing is unusable and becomes landfill), but it […]
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Latinx Project’s “Building Radical Soil” Explores Sustainability in Collective Art – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] At NYU’s Latinx Project, Building Radical Soil is a group exhibition (on view now until 5 May) by nine artists who meditate on conservation methods throughout the Latin, African and Asian diaspora. Whether focusing on traditional or contemporary approaches to sustainability, the artists highlight how collective art-making acts as resistance against colonialism-induced climate change. Lina […]
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Yvette Mayorga’s Cake Decorations Critique Surveillance and Consumerism – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Yvette Mayorga’s most recent work, “Surveillance Locket,” is a cake version of the Polly Pocket mansion that the artist dreamed of owning in her youth. Made with multiple layers of pink acrylic paint, pushed through piping bags, the faux confection melds the domestic interiors of the artist’s childhood with imaginary spaces. At first glance, […]