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...transnationalism” as a concept has not been adequately defined. In the words of anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, “No idiom has yet emerged to capture the collective interests of many groups in translocal solidarities, cross-border mobilizations, and postnational identities.” Ethnic or postcolonial studies—the two closest versions available today—examine only partially the variety of ways in which humans interact in time and space.Luckily, the historical current does seem to be taking us into uncharted waters. As Hist and Lit Assistant Director of Studies Andrew Romig wrote...
...example, the introductory courses in history are exclusively Western. A deep investigation of African history necessitates dipping heavily into the anthropology and African and African American studies departments. It is worth pausing and asking why the histories of non-white regions are still largely relegated to the arena of ethnic studies when French and German are as much categories of ethnicity as are Indian, Egyptian, or Ghanaian...
...granting autonomy to departments of regional and ethnic studies, academics may think they are allowing marginalized historical characters to have voice in their own domain. But as literary critic and social theorist Gayatri Spivak writes in her article, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”(1988), post-colonial initiatives such as these may in fact be complicit in the task of imperialism. In creating a forum outside of the discipline of history that forces non-Western histories into anthropological molds, the ideal of collective speech may in fact silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized...
...change to a nation that craves it? Can he win the White House in a year when his party is in widespread ill repute, and is led by the most unpopular incumbent President in the history of polling? And most importantly, can he do it against the youthful, multi-ethnic, charm-infused, walking, talking embodiment of change that is his Democratic opponent...
...young men in black T-shirts are content to smoke their Marlboros and nurse their cokes, eyeing the more prosperous opposite bank of the river. They never cross the bridge, of course, because the Ibar marks the dividing line between Mitrovica's Serb north side, and its ethnic-Albanian south side - enclaves that have, for the past decade, been so separate that they might as well have been different countries. In fact, the reason the "Descendants" are burning Old Glory is ostensibly to protest Washington's support for the "fake state" of Kosovo...