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Walter Mignolo—Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
In Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking, Mignolo describes the role that colonial difference plays in contemporary conceptions of modernity and the enactment of subaltern knowledges operating on the borders of the current world system. Mignolo … Continue reading
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Wallerstein, Immanuel European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power
In this tiny but powerful collection of essays adapted from various conference presentations, Wallerstein traces contemporary rhetorics of modernity back to the Sepulveda/Las Casas debate in the 1500s over who has the right to intervene, when, and how in … Continue reading
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Villanueva, Victor “Memoria is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourse of Color”
In this essay, Villanueva interwines poetry, narrative, and memory to disrupt traditional academic conventions where memory and emotion have no legitimate place. Academic discourse, according to Villanueva, is too logocentric in its effort to “reach the Aristotelian ideal of being … Continue reading
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Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture—Chapter 1 “The Postcolonial and the Postmodern”
General: Bhaba combines interdisciplinary theories into one dense package. Modernity=order, progress, central meaning, linearity. Postmodernism=art and lit. movement, no central meaning; everything is text with no single interpretation; everything is text; neo-Marxism drives postmodern theory=agency less important because individual is always … Continue reading
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Said– “Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories” –Chapter 1 from CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM
Dominant powers interested in defining homogenous culture so it is easier to manage and within the culture, people want to homogenize culture to gather power against dominant forces…. ”History, in other words, is not a calculating machine. It unfolds … Continue reading
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“Codex Scripts of Resistance: From Columbus to the Border Patrol” Damian Baca
WARNING: LONG SUMMARY AHEAD. SKIP TO BOTTOM FOR COMMENTS. In “Codex Scripts of Resistance: From Columbus to Border Control,” Damian Baca (Yeah CCR!) rocks the C & R Ranch with a compelling rhetorical analysis of Mestiz@ rhetorics of resistance and … Continue reading
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