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Nov.05.2012 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "Three Women’s Text and a Critique of Imperialism.” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Essay – Response Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak claims that in the discussion of nineteenth- century British Literature one should take into account two important facts. The first is that imperialism was “England’s social mission” and as such was a “crucial part of the...	Jan.12.2012 Of Broken Clocks, Presidential Candidates, and the Confusion of Certain White Liberals This commentary is rated MA for mature audiences. It contains some foul language, although honestly, only so much as is needed to get the damned point across. Parental discretion is advised… Attention to all self-proclaimed liberals and progressives. I would like to properly introduce you to a...
Dec.29.2011 Telling White Lies: Patriotic Correctness and the War on Ethnic Studies You’re tellin’ white lies You’re tellin’ white lies Well I can see right through that thin disguise Can’t you tell I can tell when you’re telling’ white lies? —Jason and the Scorchers, “White Lies” Forget so-called “political correctness.” In Arizona, there is a far greater threat to free speech...	Jun.13.2011 Flesh and Grass is out in paperback in the US. At long last, the paperback edition is out in the US. This is after extensive editing, two proofreads (one after the paperback proof was out), moving house, tearing hair out, etc.
Mar.04.2011 The Colonial Mother Land England was a cyst that I wanted amputated. Growing up in Jamaica, as I did, under the colonial legacy, England was referred to as the mother country, a mother who bore no resemblance to me or my fellow Jamaicans and who regarded us, her children, with disdain (in school we were taught Jamaicans...	Jan.14.2010 I am sooooooooo sick of this one! Okay, so this one was just basically a bomb waiting to go off: I have been wondering recently about various (sort of and former) friends who live where they do because its safely "white." They tell me that they think their preferred neighbourhood has good schools, where their kids...
Nov.20.2008 Commander of the Faithful by John Kiser -- A Review Commander of the Faithful is narrative history built on the life of a devout Arab jihadist, Abd el-Kader, who resisted French colonization of Algeria for fifteen years (1832-1847) and then was imprisoned in France for five years, only to become a cultural hero of sorts in France (and elsewhere in...