Readings for today:
- Edward Said, excerpt from Orientalism.
- Sunaina Maira, "Belly Dancing: Arab-Face, Orientalist Feminism and U.S. Empire," American Quarterly (2008), pp. 317-345.
- READING RESPONSE PAPER DUE TODAY!
- Fela Kuti, "Colonial Mentality"
- Anti-Product, "It Festers in the Hearts"
- Guide: Overview of Colonialism and Post-colonialism
- Guide: Outline of Mohanty's "Under Western Eyes"
- Frantz Fanon, "Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom: A Speech to Congress of Black African Writers."
- Che Guevara, "Colonialism is Doomed," A speech delivered on December 11, 1964 to the 19th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.
- Kwame Nkrumah, "Introduction", "The Mechanisms of Neo-Colonialism," "Conclusion," Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd: London, 1965.
- Amilcar Cabral, "The Weapon of Theory," Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.
- Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, Nos. 2&3, 2007 (Special Issue: Coloniality of Power and De-colonial Thinking)
- Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera
- Adria Imada “Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits through the American Empire,” American Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 (March 2004) pp. 111-149.
- Adria Imada, “The Army Learns to Luau: Imperial Hospitality and Military Photography in Hawai'I,” Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2008) pp. 329-361.
- Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism
- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Decolonizing the Mind
- Stuart Hall, "Culture, Community, Nation," Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, October 1993, pp. 349-363.
- Stuart Hall, "Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad," Small Axe #6, 1999, pp. 1-18.
- Stuart Hall, "Whose Heritage? Un-settling 'The Heritage', Re-imagining the Post-Nation," Third Text, Vol. 13, Issue 49, Winter 1999, pp. 3-13.
- Postcolonial studies at Emory University (relevant articles, links and glossaries).
- The Post-Colonial Studies Reader
- The Post-Colonial Question
