Word: orientale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I was a kid, my ethnicity--I was born in the United States to Chinese parents--made me "Chinese." Later, that label gave way to the broader category of "Oriental." At some point during high school I was abruptly informed (by a white friend) that "Oriental" was now a...
The "African" in African-American, then, locates black culture outside the United States, in its ancestral, African roots. At the same time, the "-American" places blacks among the ranks of the American hyphenated. Among these ethnic groups, too, the move toward hyphenation has been a conscious, progressive struggle. Only in...
As with Midnight's Children, Rushdie's second novel, The Moor's Last Sigh feels rather like magic realism, Indian style. There are curses and prophecies and general supernatural occurences, but these are offered with something that feels like scepticism: the magical may also be coincidental. This sophisticated, even jaded...
Prior to that, though - before about 930 B.C. - the experts disagree on just about everything. At one pole in this scholarly version of Crossfire is the group known as the maximalists, who consider the Bible a legitimate guidebook for archaeological research. At the other are the minimalists, or biblical nihilists...
"I have focused on the medieval Arabic world as a student at Harvard," said Rascoff, who intends to get a masters in Oriental Studies. "As a graduate student at Oxford, I look forward to turning my attention to the modern Middle East."