Postcolonialism


Orientalism
The Wretched of the Earth
Black Skin, White Masks
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Discourse on Colonialism
Culture and Imperialism
The Location of Culture
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
Heart of Darkness
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
Wide Sargasso Sea
The God of Small Things
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Midnight’s Children
Helen Pluckrose
Since they look at oppression only in terms of colonialism, colonialism is all these scholars and activists are equipped to find. As a result, not only do they hamstring their ability to understand - and therefore ameliorate - the problems they are seeking to solve, but they also tend to make them worse. This commonly results in a marked tendency to neglect the rights of women and of sexual and religious minorities, unless they are threatened by white Westerners. This goes against achieving soci ...more
Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

John  Green
Bei dieser Passage gibt es nur ein einziges Problem: Es stimmt nicht. »Der Mensch« hat keineswegs den Atem angehalten angesichts dieses Kontinents, denn wenn wir uns »den Menschen« als die gesamte Menschheit vorstellen, dann hat »der Mensch« die Gegend schon gekannt, ja bereits seit Zehntausenden von Jahren bewohnt. Die Verwendung von »der Mensch« verrät uns am Ende viel darüber, wen genau der Erzähler als Person anerkennt und von welchem Standpunkt die Geschichte erzählt wird.
John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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