Boston’s Colonial Universities Grab Land for Profit, War, and Medical Apartheid

Allston hates Harvard. Source: Shin Eun-jung, Vertia$: Harvard’s Hidden History (2015). Universities on Turtle Island, as la paperson writes, “are land-grabbing, land-transmogrifying, land-capitalizing machines.” Indigenous land theft, and profits from slavery, enabled these universities to be built in the first place – and they still collect profits from stolen lands.[1] With this accumulated capital, major US universities have More

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