POSTCOLONIAL/INTERNATIONALIST PERSPECTIVES
DEFINITION
Theorising the colonial process and the responses of
former colonial countries to this process.
COMPREHENSIVE LINK:Post-Colonial theory at Brown University
THEORY
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I was brought up, like all Americans, to believe
that we were a peace-loving country whose bad luck it was to keep getting
roped into other people's wars. Then, while writing Empire, I realized
to what extent the Spanish-American
War was cold-bloodedly planned,specifically
by the assistant secretary of the Navy, mad little Theodore
Roosevelt, and by Admiral
Mahan, Cabot
Lodge, and Brooks
Adams - New England grandees with imperial longings.
Gore
Vidal
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Theory link
What matters to "experts" like (Judith)
Miller, Samuel
Huntington, Martin
Kramer, Bernard Lewis,
Daniel
Pipes, Steven
Emerson and Barry
Rubin, plus a whole battery of Israeli academics, is to make sure that
the "threat" is kept before our eyes, the better to excoriate Islam for
terror, despotism and violence, while assuring themselves profitable consultancies,
frequent TV appearances and book contracts.
Edward
Said
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Robert Rauschenberg,
Retroactive 1
The press supported state violence throughout,
though JFK regarded
it as an enemy because of tactical criticism and grumbling. Much fantasy
has been spun in later years about crusading journalists exposing government
lies; what they exposed was the failure of tactics to achieve ends they
fully endorsed.
Noam
Chomsky RETHINKING
CAMELOT
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Just as a tree without roots is dead...a people
without history or cultural roots becomes a dead people.
Malcolm
X
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As the United States took over the last remnants
of the Spanish empire (for example, in Puerto Rico, the Philippines,
and Guam) and expanded its economic presence in South America, U. S. racist
ideology flourished.
Cornel
West
PRACTICE:
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Karin Aguilar-San Juan, "Gazing/Colonial:
Looking at The Vietnamese American Community in Boston and Orange County"
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