For decades, Africville was home to a thriving Black community on the shores of Halifax. Its destruction reveals a deeper history of environmental racism, municipal neglect, and the unequal decisions that determine which communities bear the costs of urban development.

From the multilingual Kingdom of Hungary to the revival of Magyar traditions at Kurultáj, this essay explores how culture becomes national heritage, how heritage becomes political, and the difficult question beneath it all: who gets to decide what it means to be Hungarian?