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| | | | | [AI summary] The text presents a detailed critique of the arguments made by scholars like Daniel Moynihan and Charles Murray, who have attributed poverty and dysfunction among certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States to cultural factors. The author challenges these views by highlighting the diversity and complexity of African and African diasporic societies, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities. The author argues that these groups cannot be characterized as uniformly collectivist, authoritarian, or lacking in individual ambition, and that such portrayals are based on flawed and often racist assumptions. The critique extends to the broader concept of 'cultural difference' as a way to e... | |
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| | | | | This statement advances an impassioned argument for the importance of expert knowledge and the institutions of higher education that produce and transmit it. | |
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www.keanuheydari.com
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| | | | | The primary texts under discussion include Benjamin Claude Brower's A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 (2009); Jennifer E. Sessions's By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria (2011); Judith Surkis's Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in Algeria, 1830-1930 (2019); and Joshua Cole's Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (2019). Taken together, these texts provide insight about four typologies of violence and violent behaviors in the French Algerian colonial field: physical violence (including structural violence), ideological violence (including symbolic violence), juridico-discursive violence, and inter-communal violence (by way of) provocation. | |
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scheerpost.com
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| | | The "temporary pier" being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile. | ||
