In the United States, we like to discuss the distortions of the nation’s history as amnesia, when it is more appropriate to understand our affliction as selective memory clotted with omissions ...

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Hartman, Professor of English at Columbia University, first wrote Scenes of Subjection near the close of the twentieth century and “persuasively argued for a critical analysis of the modes of ...

Saidiya Hartman has shaped studies of Black life for over two decades. Her first book, 1997’s Scenes of Subjection, argued that slavery was foundational to the American project and its notions ...

"It renounces the mindset of cultural or racial superiority which allowed for that objectification or subjection of people, and strongly condemns any attitudes or actions that threaten or damage ...

On the eve of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was then known, regaining its freedom and independence after 150 years of British colonial rule and 443 years of colonial subjection, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, ...

His most famous work, “On Liberty”, championed “giving full freedom to human nature”, yet it was his essay, “The Subjection of Women”, ten years later, in 1869, which argued that “th ...

The vow of obedience was based on Ephesians 5:22 and First Peter 3:1, where wives are commanded to be in subjection to their husbands. The words “submit” and “subjection” in the New ...

Kirkpatrick had gone out to India full of ambition, intent on making his name in the subjection of a nation; but instead it was he who was conquered, not by an army but by a Hyderabadi noblewoman ...