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...director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at BC, said she is interested in “how the Civil Rights legacy is being understood and reframed after 9/11” and why the Bush administration chose to link the “overcoming of black oppression?? with the “so-called war with freedom and democracy...

Author: By Julia R Jeffries, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Young Discusses Race, War, Culture | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...women), wrote at length of what she calls “colonial feminism”: a part of the “civilizing” mission of the British, whereby British colonial presence in Egypt was justified with claims to liberate “native” women from oppression??all while Englishwomen still lacked the right to vote. Horowitz’s logic is nothing more than colonial feminism in today’s neo-colonialist...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Neo-Fascism Awareness Week | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...member cited the need for her organization to understand the “core issues of being a black woman.” According to Giselle B. Schuetz ’06, dividing women along ethnic lines is a “tactic” of “oppression?? that prevents the formation of a feminist coalition. Schuetz was the only RUS member sitting among ABHW members on one side of the table. RUS members sat together on the opposite side. Despite the divided set-up of the discussion, the meeting concluded with a promise of further...

Author: By Giuliana Vetrano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women Discuss Feminism | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression,” journalist Álvaro Vargas Llosa argues that this crisis of political legitimacy originates in five “principles of oppression??: corporatism, state mercantilism, privilege, wealth transfer, and political law. He blames the region’s recurrent slide into instability and stagnation on persistent government meddling in private affairs...

Author: By Adam N. Khedouri, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Diagnosing the Madness of Things Latin American | 4/27/2005 | See Source »

...disgusted by the piece you ran suggesting that the nature of the conflict in Israel today is a “racist colonial oppression?? (Op-Ed, “An Ideology of Oppression,” April 11). The writer clearly misunderstands what is going on and the history involved...

Author: By Shira H. Fischer, | Title: Middle East Crisis Does Not Constitute Race War | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

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