Word: colonialist
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...American than paying a bunch of money for a ridiculous costume that you’ll only wear once?” As far as patriotic celebrations go, I think you may be neglecting Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. Super Bowl Sunday? “Blatant symbols of colonialist repression and American exceptionalism. My favorite holidays are Diwali and Bastille Day.” I read somewhere that Americans will shell out $5 billion on Halloween this year. Spending’s up more than 50% since 2005. But it’s still just chump change, compared...
...whereby British colonial presence in Egypt was justified with claims to liberate “native” women from oppression—all while Englishwomen still lacked the right to vote. Horowitz’s logic is nothing more than colonial feminism in today’s neo-colonialist...
...legitimate issue for research and publication." Hoping to start the trend is William Leahy, head of English at Brunel University who, later this month, will teach the first ever M.A. course dedicated to the authorship question. "Shakespeare studies already look at his work from so many angles - feminist, post-colonialist, historical," he says. "And I think it's important that the authorship question is one of them." This could be much ado about nothing. Or maybe, one day, the truth will...
...campaign against AQI may be among the last useful missions for the U.S. military in Iraq. We could drive out every last Islamic extremist, and the country would still be in the midst of a civil war that is trending toward chaos. And make no mistake: the U.S. colonialist insistence on dictating the shape of Iraq's future - framing a constitution, training an Iraqi army and the threat of a permanent U.S. military presence - has exacerbated the chaos...
Only the boldest lit concentrator and Toscanini’s regular takes his MacBook to the minimalist outside tables, where he can pretend to read (but actually just be seen with) post-colonialist Prof. Homi K. Bhabha’s “The Location of Culture.” In addition to his leather manbag stuffed with Marlboro Reds and Saturday night show tickets for the Middle East, he sports an ironic Communist slogan T-shirt. But don’t be fooled by the façade of pretension; he’s actually quite approachable?...