Posts tagged: anti-colonialism
- On institutionalized racism and global politics
- In their rush to portray liberal internationalism as the height of human achievement, too many historians have forgotten what Mazower regards as the real ideological impulse behind the U.N.’s creation: preservation of the British Empire and white rule over Europe’s colonial possessions. From Hope Against History, a review of two books about the founding of the [...] [17 Dec 2009]
- Islam and “The Colonized Mind”
- It was the most successful form of colonialism: the colonized mind identified completely with the colonizer. The Javanese had held out for centuries, but finally they had lost. Their idea of there being many paths to God, none better than the other, had broken under the weight of the orthodox Arab injunction about the one [...] [16 Nov 2009]