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• Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
• Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
• I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
• Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
• Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
• Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
• Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
• The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
• Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
• Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
• Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
• Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…

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