Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students who shopped "History 10b: Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From 1650 to the Present" may have expected something like what the course book promised...
...Second half of a survey of European history from the first cities and empires to modern times. Also treats some major aspects of the history of the Americas insofar as they from part of overarching Western developments. Topics treated, comparatively, include monarchs and estates in the era of estate formations; the Enlightenment and age of revolutions; liberalism and nation building; imperialism and the world wars; cultural and social change; individualism, gender, and race...
...prior convictions about art and the universe, the Fogg show does illustrate the development of a small national artistic community through one of the most tumultuous epochs in the history of European painting. The assembled works provide an overview of the transition that was taking place across the Western world from traditional eighteenth century portraiture, through a school of the national landscape, to proto-Impressionsim. Kobke's Copy of Eckersberg's Portrait of Thorvaldsen (1828) boasts an intense dramatic tone, vaguely reminiscent of David or other French portraitists of the era. Kyhn's landscapes suggest the influence of Corot...
Cornel West writes fairly extensively about the misrepresentation of Africa and the problems of racism in New World, or Western, culture. Taken at face value, some of his discussions seem to border on a declaration of "us against them." West is quick to clarify that such an interpretation of his work misleading. A large part of his mission in Keeping Faith is to establish African-Americans as permanent fixtures in, and significant contributors to, Western society. Though is philosophy calls for Blacks in America to reach a full understanding of their separate heritage, his messages is not separatist. Using...
...wholeheartedly in the strength of individuals and in the potential of the community. He supports pride for and understanding of Individual heritages, but opposes the ignorant dismissal of the heritages of others. West's philosophy centers around the idea of balance. Success can only come when the scales of western society are able to support the weights of varying cultures without tipping one way or the other. As West himself admits, Keeping Faith "ain't easy...