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Postcolonialism
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These stories relieve me of the pain of belonging nowhere and give me the key to everywhere. As I once longed for a singular place, a singular ethnicity or plot of land over generations, I now long for its opposite, for a space beyond belonging. I have travelled to many places in order to scope a sense of ownership or repatriation, but as I try to square my politics with my privilege, it seems that my only true inheritance is that I am always running somewhere else.
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― Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
― Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
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That racism still exists is taken as evidence of the failure of the liberal project, but of course nobody has made the case that it has been eradicated. If a disease is cured but a few symptoms linger, one does not claim that the treatment was ineffective. Social liberalism is an ongoing process because it recognizes the imperfectability of human nature.
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― The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
― The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
