Wayne Modest is the Director of Content for the National Museum of Worldcultures and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam and head of the Research Center of Material Culture. He is also professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Modest was previously, head of the curatorial department at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum in London, and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography in Kingston, Jamaica.

Additional resources that Dr. Modest recommends:

Decolonize This Place

https://decolonizethisplace.org/faxxx-1

Rhodes Must Fall

https://harvardpolitics.com/rhodes-must-fall/

Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage by Felwine Sarr and

Bénédicte Savoy

http://restitutionreport2018.com/sarr_savoy_en.pdf

Potential History, Unlearning Imperialism

by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3079-potential-history

History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas by Wilson Harris and Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe 

https://www.amazon.com/History-Fable-Myth-Caribbean-Guianas/dp/0911565205

Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris

https://harvardlawreview.org/1993/06/whiteness-as-property/

Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities) By Brenna Bhandar

https://www.indiebound.org/buy-local/9780822371465

Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice 

By David Scott

https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=omens+of+adversity

Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire by Henrietta Lidchi, Stuart Allan, Alan Lester   

https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=Henrietta+Lidchi+dividing+the+spoils+

Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah Thomas,

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822350688/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_thcv_p1_i1

Spotify playlist featuring

Peter Tosh, Equal Rights 

Bob Marley, Babylon System

Vybz Kartel: Reparations

Burning Spear, Days of Slavery

And more! 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wJXGFz7oHaXykSsESDVXM?si=251fe856f567481d

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