Post 9vx3n7xpbgOQC07eN6 by Cobalt@kitty.town
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 (DIR) Post #9vwOhofhoNrwn1zd1U by alex@bigshoulders.city
       2020-06-10T13:11:52Z
       
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       More Like Christopher Cabeza-Less
       
 (DIR) Post #9vwPK67lN7J7vEN2i8 by alex@bigshoulders.city
       2020-06-10T13:19:00Z
       
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       much like how confederate statues were mostly built in the 1920s to reinforce jim crow and not to commemorate any actual event, columbus statues in america were mostly built in the 1950s-1970s by italian-american business groups to reinforce italians' newfound whiteness and american-ness during the cold war
       
 (DIR) Post #9vwPdSwGluj8BNEK2K by alex@bigshoulders.city
       2020-06-10T13:22:26Z
       
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       the cult of christopher columbus in the united states can not be separated from an intense effort by the children of the first generation of italian immigrants to escape their otherness and embrace whiteness
       
 (DIR) Post #9vx3n7xpbgOQC07eN6 by Cobalt@kitty.town
       2020-06-10T19:40:21Z
       
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       @alex this fits with what I know, but do you have anything else I could read about it?
       
 (DIR) Post #9vx3n89WuBkamHazbc by alex@bigshoulders.city
       2020-06-10T20:52:31Z
       
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       @Cobalt not offhand, but the boston sculpture specifically was used as a pro-vietnam war patriotic display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Christopher_Columbus_(North_End,_Boston)#cite_note-5 and the lynching of italians in new orleans in 1890 ( i think) was a big turning point in Italian-Americans saying, ok, we gotta super-USA-it-up to justify our existence here