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...communities, the consequences of which still haunt American societies now, many years after emancipation. The divide was reinforced by the determination to segregate black and white communities and discourage intermarriage, and by the reluctance to liberate black people from slavery from one generation to the next. This contrasted with the experiences of African slaves...

...communities, many of whom organise and identify as Indigenous today...The global challenge of growing inequalities is intricately linked to the distinction made between those historically regarded as human and those who have not been. The division between ‘civilised’ and ‘non-civilised/primitive’ played a vital role in justifying the colonisation and enslavement...

...community and brotherhood in the light of recent events, and it even prompted a change to the composition. In its last movement, the Ninth Symphony sets a text by Friedrich Schiller, An die Freude—or ‘Ode to Joy’. Bernstein, in the spirit of recent events, took the decision to amend the text sung, changing each mention of the word Freude (joy) to Freiheit (freedom)....