C.S. Oliver's Blog, page 21
September 27, 2018
kittykat8311:I wonder what white culture actually is when you take away all the stuff blatantly...
The reason I find culture appropriation a problem
If I was to wear a kimono into class one day in high school I would have been told to “go...
spiritroots:
Yall please check your sources before you reblog.
Please don’t be out there reblogging...
Yall please check your sources before you reblog.
Please don’t be out there reblogging...
September 26, 2018
Writing to Philip II of Spain to alert him of the terrible...
Writing to Philip II of Spain to alert him of the terrible atrocities he had witnessed in Cuba and other Spanish colonies in the New World, the Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1576) describes:excesses which, if no move is made to stop them, will be committed time and again, and which (given that the indigenous peoples of the region are naturally so gentle, so peace-loving, so humble and so docile) are of themselves iniquitous, tyrannical, contrary to natural, canon, and civil law, and are deemed wicked and are condemned and proscribed by all such legal codes. (Griffin 2004: 6)
epistemic violence” (Spivak 2001: 2197-2208), upon this...
epistemic violence” (Spivak 2001: 2197-2208), upon this destruction, thus designating “violence which works ‘not by military might or industrial strength, but by thought itself ’” (Partha Chatterjee qtd. in Nanda 2005: 575
