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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…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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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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A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.
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Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather…
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Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
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It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.
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It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing…
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My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of…
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