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11072 - Chocolate Candy Hands still sold in Belgium despite Congo Genocide of King Leopold / SamePassage

Today I’d like to look at Professor Silverman’s concept of “cultural blind spots” –the idea that vestiges of colonial violence in Belgian objects and artwork went almost entirely unnoticed by the public- and similar structures in American society today. One of her most vivid examples involved chocolate hands, a regional specialty of Antwerp. Called Antwerpse handjes in Dutch, these sweets are associated primarily with the myth of the founding of the city, in which the hero Brabo slew the tyr...