The Domination

“If there is something in these utterances more than youthful inexperience, more than a lack of factual knowledge, what is it? Quite simply it is the desire -- one might indeed say the need -- in Western psychology to set Africa up as a foil to Europe, as a place of negations at once remote and vaguely familiar, in comparison with which Europe 's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest. This need is not new; which should relieve us all of considerable responsibility and perhaps make us…

This past February, the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by throwing a party dubbed as the “MLK Black Party.” Attendees dressed as they believed a stereotypical black male would: basketball jerseys, baggy basketball shorts, and snapbacks. They also made watermelon cups, and posed for pictures while throwing up gang signs. Some partygoers posted group photos on Instagram, using hashtags such as #myboymartin, #blackoutformlk, and…

without ideology. There is no truth behind the ideological veil; there is only a series of veils. But, for Žižek, behind the veil there is a “hard kernel of the Real” of our desire, that which we would choose to do in absence of the structure and domination of ideology.14 While he doesn’t believe simply thinking will achieve anything, Žižek allows his subject the experience of formulating his or her own thoughts and then making the choice to fit into the dominant…

One of the most important institutions for a human being is the family. The family is where the individual builds up their manners, values, and morals. Family is also where socialization is mostly affected for an individual. According to Coltrane, family is defined as “a group of two or more people who reside together and who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption” (Coltrane). On the contrary, family is defined in many ways, some people define family as long past ancestors, distant family…

Traditionally, male heroes in Western novels are expected to adhere to a certain masculine stereotype. However in Max Brand’s “The Ghost," the male hero possesses mainly feminine qualities and fulfills both male and female gender roles. This complex protagonist suggests Max Brand is exploring a new idea of what makes a man. In doing so Brand discourages the codes of hegemonic masculinity, and uses positive feminine qualities in order to create a new breed of male hero, who displays feminine…

strong force that is the cause of many things, including literacy, education, and more. Nationalism is the strong belief that the people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute as an independent nation free of foreign domination. Post the Napoleonic period in France; sectionalist arose because of the French Revolution. The revolution made people aware of culture and ideological movements which divided France. “Nationalists stressed the primary identification of the…

Colonization, to the white man, was the best antidote for healing the barbaric pagans of Africa, but in actuality it had worse side effects than “healing powers.” Colonization stripped the identities for the African people causing them to adapt to or accept their oppressor’s abusive ways and belittling their identities to agents of production. Paulo Freire theorizes that for the African persons to liberate their selves, they had to create their own remedies to achieve full freedom, by rejecting…

There culture and customs were being ignored and replaced by Western practices. The first act of the Europeans was to train African officers, under European officers, so they could deter colonial resistance. Reactions to European Domination Africans did not willingly submit to European colonizers. This African resistance has been divided into two categories primary resistance and secondary resistance. Primary resistance was the unplanned, initial, and violent reaction toward European…

In American History Bound by Gary Y. Okihiro, he expresses an unpopular opinion about World War II. WWII was originally stated as the “good” war, especially in comparison to WWI which was only a mere twenty years previous. However, Okihiri contradicts this idea. In the chapter that was assigned for class, Okihiri expresses WWII in a mannerly fashion, despite his ideas; however, he speaks more about the underlying facts that are always portrayed when talking about the second world war. From the…

Napoléon Bonaparte has died at Saint Helena, but his legacy of power and domination still shakes Europe. The empires of the Americans are shattered, and the empires of Europe hear the first rumbles in a gathering storm of nationalism. The Vienna Congress that brought the Napoleonic Wars to an end was meant to restore the old monarchical order, but the concert of balanced powers it sought to establish is already looking precarious. Whichever nations can seize this moment will dominate a new age.…