Law Wing Sang
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099296
- eISBN:
- 9789882206755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099296.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter considers the Cold War as the most important background against which there emerged a cultural and political imagery about a diasporic Chinese nation. It analyses the connections of ...
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This chapter considers the Cold War as the most important background against which there emerged a cultural and political imagery about a diasporic Chinese nation. It analyses the connections of currents of thought manifested in notions such as Overseas China or in intellectual currents such as Neo-Confucianism, with the controversial Cold War cultural infrastructure revealing how the latter pre-conditioned the materialization of a distinct type of Chinese nationalism in Hong Kong identity, as it is now known. It observes that there is a common belief that the rise of Hong Kong identity in the 1970s is attributable to the political awakening of Hong Kong's postwar baby-boomer generation to colonial oppression. It considers the indigenization of colonial power as the main motif informing and underlying the writings and the other practices of some of the latest members of the colonial intelligentsia.Less
This chapter considers the Cold War as the most important background against which there emerged a cultural and political imagery about a diasporic Chinese nation. It analyses the connections of currents of thought manifested in notions such as Overseas China or in intellectual currents such as Neo-Confucianism, with the controversial Cold War cultural infrastructure revealing how the latter pre-conditioned the materialization of a distinct type of Chinese nationalism in Hong Kong identity, as it is now known. It observes that there is a common belief that the rise of Hong Kong identity in the 1970s is attributable to the political awakening of Hong Kong's postwar baby-boomer generation to colonial oppression. It considers the indigenization of colonial power as the main motif informing and underlying the writings and the other practices of some of the latest members of the colonial intelligentsia.
Minkah Makalani
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190459840
- eISBN:
- 9780190459888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190459840.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, American History: 19th Century
Between 1927 and 1930, African diaspora radicals, based in the United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, came together to mount radical and transnational challenges to colonialism, imperialism, ...
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Between 1927 and 1930, African diaspora radicals, based in the United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, came together to mount radical and transnational challenges to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy around the world. Black radicals like George Padmore and Richard B. Moore traveled to participate in the International Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism organized by the Comintern in Brussels in 1927 and worked to continue international organizing against imperialism in all its forms afterward. These radicals showed enthusiasm, for a time, about working with an international communist movement that appeared pledged to an anticolonial program. However, they struggled to build and maintain their agency as black people committed to black liberation in the face of the uncertainties and shifts of state policy.Less
Between 1927 and 1930, African diaspora radicals, based in the United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, came together to mount radical and transnational challenges to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy around the world. Black radicals like George Padmore and Richard B. Moore traveled to participate in the International Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism organized by the Comintern in Brussels in 1927 and worked to continue international organizing against imperialism in all its forms afterward. These radicals showed enthusiasm, for a time, about working with an international communist movement that appeared pledged to an anticolonial program. However, they struggled to build and maintain their agency as black people committed to black liberation in the face of the uncertainties and shifts of state policy.
Katherine H. Hayes and Craig N. Cipolla
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813060705
- eISBN:
- 9780813050911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813060705.003.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Methodology and Techniques
This chapter introduces the major themes and coherent aims of the volume, arguing that colonialism is a subject of concern not simply as a condition of the past but also evolving and having impacts ...
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This chapter introduces the major themes and coherent aims of the volume, arguing that colonialism is a subject of concern not simply as a condition of the past but also evolving and having impacts in the present and future. Archaeologies of colonialism, which encompass these perspectives, must grapple with the pitfalls and potentials of comparative approaches, most clearly evident when the voices of descendant communities are part of the study. Authors in this volume converge on two broad themes that are highlighted here: critical temporalities (conflicting concepts of past, future, and historical memory) and critical geographies (conflicting notions of local/global, native/immigrant, mainstream/marginal). Archaeologies of colonialism in this volume also seek to demonstrate that both the violence of colonial oppression and the agency and creativity of indigenous and marginalized peoples can and should be part of interpretation and representation, acknowledging that in some instances these perspectives are subject to contemporary conflict and tension.Less
This chapter introduces the major themes and coherent aims of the volume, arguing that colonialism is a subject of concern not simply as a condition of the past but also evolving and having impacts in the present and future. Archaeologies of colonialism, which encompass these perspectives, must grapple with the pitfalls and potentials of comparative approaches, most clearly evident when the voices of descendant communities are part of the study. Authors in this volume converge on two broad themes that are highlighted here: critical temporalities (conflicting concepts of past, future, and historical memory) and critical geographies (conflicting notions of local/global, native/immigrant, mainstream/marginal). Archaeologies of colonialism in this volume also seek to demonstrate that both the violence of colonial oppression and the agency and creativity of indigenous and marginalized peoples can and should be part of interpretation and representation, acknowledging that in some instances these perspectives are subject to contemporary conflict and tension.
S. Ashley Kistler
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038358
- eISBN:
- 9780252096228
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038358.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly ...
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As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies. In spite of this history, the people of San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, have effectively resisted significant changes to their cultural identities. Chamelco residents embrace new technologies, ideas, and resources to strengthen their indigenous identities and maintain Maya practice in the 21st century, a resilience that sets Chamelco apart from other Maya towns. Unlike the region's other indigenous women, Chamelco's Q'eqchi' market women achieve both prominence and visibility as vendors, dominating social domains from religion to local politics. These women honor their families' legacies through continuation of the inherited, high-status marketing trade. This book describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Working at the intersections of globalization, kinship, gender, and memory, the book presents a firsthand look at Maya markets as a domain in which the values of capitalism and indigenous communities meet.Less
As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies. In spite of this history, the people of San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, have effectively resisted significant changes to their cultural identities. Chamelco residents embrace new technologies, ideas, and resources to strengthen their indigenous identities and maintain Maya practice in the 21st century, a resilience that sets Chamelco apart from other Maya towns. Unlike the region's other indigenous women, Chamelco's Q'eqchi' market women achieve both prominence and visibility as vendors, dominating social domains from religion to local politics. These women honor their families' legacies through continuation of the inherited, high-status marketing trade. This book describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Working at the intersections of globalization, kinship, gender, and memory, the book presents a firsthand look at Maya markets as a domain in which the values of capitalism and indigenous communities meet.
John Wharton Lowe
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469628882
- eISBN:
- 9781469628059
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628882.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter considers the ways in which Richard Wright’s autobiography Black Boy influenced the Barbadian writer George Lamming’s autobiographical novel, In the Castle of My Skin. The discussion ...
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This chapter considers the ways in which Richard Wright’s autobiography Black Boy influenced the Barbadian writer George Lamming’s autobiographical novel, In the Castle of My Skin. The discussion begins with a survey of Wright’s extensive interest in the circumCaribbean, and the experiences he had there. His friendship with Lamming provides insight into the latter’s admiration for both Wright and his works, and shows how this becomes evident in the Barbadian’s novel. Both texts were written in exile, a state that is explored using Edward Said’s theories, and accounts of Wright’s years in Paris and Lamming’s in London. Both novels, rightly seen as works of propaganda, are revealed to also be complex and lyrical works of art, employing a “palette of fire” to engage and challenge readers. Pertinent histories of Mississippi and Barbados add new angles of approach, and similarities between key characters - who illustrate the exigencies of colonial oppression and Jim Crow miseries - emerge through a use of literary theory and an arsenal of psycho-analytic tools. These issues are further examined through a reading of one of Wright’s related texts, the photo-documentary he compiled with Edwin Rosskam, Twelve Million Black Voices.Less
This chapter considers the ways in which Richard Wright’s autobiography Black Boy influenced the Barbadian writer George Lamming’s autobiographical novel, In the Castle of My Skin. The discussion begins with a survey of Wright’s extensive interest in the circumCaribbean, and the experiences he had there. His friendship with Lamming provides insight into the latter’s admiration for both Wright and his works, and shows how this becomes evident in the Barbadian’s novel. Both texts were written in exile, a state that is explored using Edward Said’s theories, and accounts of Wright’s years in Paris and Lamming’s in London. Both novels, rightly seen as works of propaganda, are revealed to also be complex and lyrical works of art, employing a “palette of fire” to engage and challenge readers. Pertinent histories of Mississippi and Barbados add new angles of approach, and similarities between key characters - who illustrate the exigencies of colonial oppression and Jim Crow miseries - emerge through a use of literary theory and an arsenal of psycho-analytic tools. These issues are further examined through a reading of one of Wright’s related texts, the photo-documentary he compiled with Edwin Rosskam, Twelve Million Black Voices.
