Eskimo Avenue: Pejorative Arctic ethnonyms as the final frontier of racism?

Kenn Nakata Steffensen   At the recent Media for All Conference in London I came across a stall marketing a new division of the subtitling company Broadcast Text International. The rather unfortunate name they have chosen is Eskimo Avenue. It could not have been named Paki Street or Nigger Lane, but it seems that Eskimo [...]

Cop-enhagen: Memories of the Danish police

Kenn Nakata Steffensen Recent media reports of Danish police brutality brought back memories of my student days in “wonderful Cop-enhagen”. Some days ago, the police there arrested almost a thousand mostly peaceful and law-abiding marchers and were only able to charge a dozen with any offences. All had their hands tied and were held for [...]

We have won some kind of award

Kenn Nakata Steffensen I am pleased but mystified that somebody has placed us among the top 100 blogs on Denmark. How did that happen? The Internet does move in mysterious ways. I have no idea how these choices are made, nor what it means. It may not mean much, but thanks to The Daily Reviewer [...]

Prime Minister’s question on forced removal and assimilation of Greenlandic children

Kenn Nakata Steffensen On the 10th August 2009 Juliane Henningsen, one the two Greenlandic members of the Danish parliament, asked a Prime Minister’s question about the forced removal of Greenlandic children in the 1950s. The following is my translation of the question and answer as recorded in the official parliamentary proceedings. The Danish source text [...]