Word: colonialismã
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...Thursday, Catherine B. Lord ’71—a visual artist, writer, curator, and intellectual focusing on queer theory, feminist history, and colonialism??will receive the Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medal. Within a matter of days she will publish an article arguing that Valerie Solanas, better known as the woman who tried to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968, should be taken more seriously as a voice in the feminist movement...
...East Harlem and the ongoing racial controversy in Jena, La. The strike called for “a more systematic response to hate crimes from Public Safety, a more collaborative expansion effort from the administration, a revision of the Core that encourages critical engagement with issues of racism and colonialism?? and increased funding to various campus multicultural groups. To be sure, these problems are troubling and the group’s solutions are worthy of consideration, but neither seems to accord with the special significance of the hunger strike as a form of extra-democratic activism. Increased discussion...
...Minister of Information for my thesis research on the country’s new cultural policy, which bans Western content and heavily funds local propaganda. For three hours, I listened as the minister explained that Zimbabwe is a nation at war against British and American neo-colonialism??the IMF, the World Bank, white farmers, and internal spies and saboteurs. When I asked the minister if his anti-colonial rhetoric masked the fact that he occupied the seat of his old exploiter, his tone changed and so did the topic of conversation: “So, why exactly...
...civilization can claim the flawless pursuit of values like tolerance, and Western civilization’s history reveals it as particularly imperfect. Western civilization is wrought with intolerance and oppression: expansive and imperialist supremacy efforts by Western nations—such as the Crusades, the Inquisition and 19th century colonialism??killed and oppressed millions in various countries in the world. Even the United States, prized by many as the bastion of liberty and equality, is no mere bystander of intolerant and repressive action. Many of America’s founders who espoused that...
...couple years of his graduation into a full-scale volume of naval history that remains today the definitive work in its field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism??Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later President) William Howard Taft and Governor of Cuba Gen. Leonard Wood...