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2017 marked the 100-year anniversary of Denmark selling its colony of the Danish West Indies to the United States. With this centennial anniversary, conversations on the legacy of Danish–Norwegian colonization and slavery were reignited in the Scandinavian mainstream.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Danbolt |first1=Mathias |last2=Wilson |first2=Michael K. |title=A monumental Challenge to Danish History |url=https://kunstkritikk.no/a-monumental-challenge-to-danish-history/ |website=Kunstkritikk |date=26 April 2018 |access-date=28 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Keskinen |first1=Suvi |title=Racism and colonial legacies in multicultural Nordic societies |url=https://raster.fi/2020/03/03/racism-and-colonial-legacies-in-multicultural-nordic-societies/ |website=Raster.fi |date=3 March 2020 |publisher=Anti-Racist Research Network |access-date=28 July 2021}}</ref> For example, the artists [[Jeannette Ehlers]] and [[La Vaughn Belle]] unveiled Denmark's first statue of a black woman, [https://www.iamqueenmary.com/ I Am Queen Mary], to memorialize Denmark's colonial impact.

 

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