Oppression Emmy Awards
Organic society
Oriental Despotism
Other, the, and Otherness of Lacan
according to Bhabha
analyzed by JanMohamed
described Fanon
described Heath
The Outsider (Wright)
Paine, Thomas
Palin, Sarah
Palm Wine Drinkard (Tutuola)
Paris Conference of Negro Writers and Artists (1956). See First International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists (1956)
Parry, Benita
development of Cultural Studies
Fanonian critique
native voice position
Pease, Donald
Perot, Ross
Plunder by colonial governments
creates rise of rational societies
of manufactures, produce, in India
Pluralism
decried by San Juan
described
notion of compatibility in multiculturalism
reduces political to cultural
with social, political, collisions of positive values
Political conservatives. See Right, the, as a political and cultural position
Political correctness (PC) debates
Political discourse
assessed through cultural literacy project
referents found in mass culture
Political left. See Academic left
Politicized curriculum
described
PC becomes issue
of William Bennett
Politics of articulation
Politics of representation
connected to post-essentialist identity politics
framed as responsibilities of black artists
permutations in black community
strictures against individuals
See also Representational democracy
“The Politics of ‘The Politics of Literary Theory’” (Young)
Populist modernism
and commodification
debated by Gilroy and Mercer
described
modality of articulation of interests
as model for practice of articulation
Postcolonialism (Young)
Post-structuralism
critique of identity
critiques of ethnic absolutism
and Fanon, by Bhabha
Young’s history
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Enoch
Présence Africaine (journal)
Price-Mars, Jean
Proust, Marcel
Psychoanalytic model
of colonial discourse
of culture
as disruptive
“The Pursuit of the Ideal” (Berlin)
Quayle, Dan
criticizes Tupac Shakur
and cultural elite term
and Murphy Brown TV character
Race
interrelated with culture
with new cultural unities
occluded by multiculturalism
shifts to ethnicity
substituting culture for
Racism
and cultural politics
and ethnicity, multiculturalism
and race and nation discussion
Rationalism
Enlightenment
European
of Oakeshott
Reed, Theodosius
Reform of Representation in the House of Commons (Burke)
Relativism and multiculturalism
cognitive
and unintelligible cross-cultural understanding
Relativist ethic of Burke
Religions in Africa and Asia
“Remembering Fanon” (Bhabha)
Representation paradigm
Representational democracy
“Representing the Colonized” (Said)
Republican National Conventions
Rich, Frank
Right, the, as a political and cultural position
in bitter battle over core values
hate speech questions surface with Obama as president
reacts to PC with free speech rallies
rhetoric of cynicism vs. righteous indignation
See also Conservatives
Right Burkean
Rivington Place
compared to Harlem Renaissance
institutionalizes cultural retrieval
origins, funding
Rorty, Richard
Sanchez, Sonia
Said, Edward
San Juan, E.
Sankofa production
Akan figure, term
controversy surrounding
of Looking for Langston
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Secularization of Africa
Senegal
Senghor, Léopold Sédar
compliments Wright’s works as being African
as Senegal’s first president
voluntarily surrenders Senegal rule
Sexism
Sexual identity
of Burke and colonialism
and the culturalist model
historicized
as self-affirmative
Shackleton, Dick
Shakur, Tupac
Shange, Ntozake
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Smith, William
Sollors, Werner
Somerville, Jimmy
Sophocles
Sorbonne Conference of Negro Writers and Artists (1956). See First International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists (1956)
Speech bans. See Hate speech bans
Spivak, Gayatri
on criticism’s referents
critique of alterity
epistemic violence of colonialism
rejects Parry’s native voice position
Sports Illustrated (magazine)
Stein, Gertrude
Suleri, Sara
Symons, Arthur
Tea Party movement
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (Gilroy)
Third World Left Romanticism
Thomas, Clarence, and Anita Hill hearings
Thurman, Wallace
Tomasky, Michael
Town-hall meetings and 9/12 rally
“Tradition and Industrialization” (Wright)
Traditions in Africa and Asia. See also African culture
Tutuola, Amos
Twilight City (film)
Uneven development
Usable past searches
Uses of Literacy (Hoggart)
Values
clashing among cultures, groups, individuals
of cultural elite
of liberal democracy in conflict with the right
of other cultures (pluralism)
Vanishing Rooms (Dixon)
Voice of the native
Wagner, Roy
Walker, Alice
Wallace, Michele
Warner, W. Lloyd
Watkins, Gloria
Wayans, Ivory Keenan
West, Cornel
White Man, Listen (Wright)
Wilde, Oscar
Will, George
Williams, Patricia
Williams, Raymond
appropriates Burke for cultural study
and identity politics
Left Burkean
oppositional criticism
self-positions, identities
as spirit of Cultural Studies movement
undergoes continual reorientation
Wimsatt, William
Winch, Peter
Wiredu, Kwasi
Wolff, Robert Paul
The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon)
Wright, Richard
on colonialism as liberating, modernizing, force
on dictators as postcolonial Africa rulers
and Gilroy’s
reading
The Outsider as black art model
on secularization of Africa
as seemingly averse to Africa, African culture
as viewing Africa in state of barbarism
Young, Robert
canonizes Fanon
on cultural politics
Marxism competes with Black Studies, feminism
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Tradition and the Black Atlantic : critical theory in the African
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