{"id":56274,"date":"2018-04-23T23:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T23:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56274"},"modified":"2018-04-23T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T23:22:20","slug":"portugal-confronts-its-slave-trade-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56274","title":{"rendered":"Portugal confronts its slave trade past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portugal confronts its slave trade past<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Politico<\/a>
\n2018-02-06<\/p>\n

Paul Ames<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nPortuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa<\/a> on Goree Island<\/a> in April 2017 Moussa Sow\/AFP via Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Planned monument in Lisbon<\/a> sparks debate over race and history.<\/em><\/p>\n

LISBON<\/a> \u2014 Over five centuries after it launched the Atlantic slave trade<\/a>, Portugal<\/a> is preparing to build a memorial to the millions of Africans its ships carried into bondage.<\/p>\n

Citizens of Lisbon voted in December for the monument to be built on a quayside<\/a> where slave ships once unloaded. Yet although the memorial has broad support, a divisive debate has ignited over how Portugal faces up to its colonial past and multiracial present.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing this will be really good for our city,\u201d said Beatriz Gomes Dias<\/a>, president of Djass<\/a>, an association of Afro-Portuguese citizens that launched the memorial plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople really got behind the project, there was a recognition that something like this is needed,\u201d said Gomes Dias. \u201cMany people told us this is important to bring justice to Portugal\u2019s history here in Lisbon, which is a cosmopolitan and diverse capital with such a strong African presence.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…Country of tolerance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Few Portuguese miss their imperial regime. Four decades on, no political force clings to colonial nostalgia. Yet a belief lingers that Portuguese colonialism was gentler than other European empires, marked by a tolerant interaction with other peoples and widespread racial mixing.<\/p>\n

That tolerance, the narrative goes, is reflected in today\u2019s Portugal.<\/p>\n

Unlike just about everywhere else in Europe<\/a>, there\u2019s no significant far-right party spouting xenophobic populism; during Europe\u2019s refugee crisis, a parliamentary consensus backed doubling the country\u2019s refugee quota; in 2015, Portugal quietly voted in Ant\u00f3nio Costa<\/a>, whose father was Indian, as prime minister…<\/p>\n

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