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However, Goodman’s sources betray the murkier moral landscape of the era of high imperialism??the book’s subtitle, “One Man’s Battle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness,” makes explicit allusion to Joseph Conrad’s famous novella, especially apt given the fact that Conrad and Casement met in 1889 in the Congo Free State. Casement’s own description of Arana recalls “the unseen presence of victorious corruption” that Marlow senses...
...quest for human understanding and we, the educated, pride ourselves upon it. However, for all the gallantry of our aspirations, it is important to consider not just the benefits, but also the conflicts that such efforts may bring. Beneath the cloak of academic humility lies a specter of cultural imperialism??one that is often difficult to reconcile with the goal of cultural exchange...
...Those who have been designated “terrorists” by the powers-that-be, while sometimes guilty of heinous crimes against humanity, have hardly had a monopoly on terror. One only needs to revisit the historical record, where—as Frantz Fanon once wrote about European imperialism??we find an “avalanche of murders” carried out by those who “never stopped talking...
This navel-gazing has hampered us from gaining a truly “international” perspective. Once, I counted five panels in a given week dedicated to bemoaning U.S. “imperialism?? or human rights abuses. This, as it happened, was the same week when embassies were being torched and innocent people murdered elsewhere in the world, amidst the engineered rage that followed the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark. By most indications, it was a remarkable cultural phenomenon, warranting a great blossoming of teach-ins and town-hall meetings?...
...Society” and Hist 1469 “The Holocaust: History and Memory,” although the latter looks to be a poor man’s Anthro 1710 “Memory Politics” (offered next fall). Hist 16909 “The US and Imperialism?? certainly seems timely, for those so inclined...