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Brown Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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Brown Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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In this unprecedented study, Hamid Dabashi provides a critical
examination of the role that immigrant
"comprador intellectuals" play in facilitating the global
domination of American imperialism. In his pioneering book about
the relationship between race and colonialism, "Black Skin, White
Masks," Frantz Fanon explored the traumatic consequences of the
sense of inferiority that colonized people felt, and how this often
led them to identify with the ideology of the colonial agency."
Brown Skin, White Masks "picks up where Frantz Fanon left off.
Dabashi extends Fanon's insights as they apply to today's world.
Dabashi shows how intellectuals who migrate to the West are often
used by the imperial power to inform on their home countries. Just
as many Iraqi exiles were used to justify the invasion of Iraq,
Dabashi demonstrates that this is a common phenomenon, and examines
why and how so many immigrant intellectuals help to sustain
imperialism.The book radically alters Edward Said's notion of the
"intellectual exile," in order to show the negative impact of
intellectual migration. Dabashi examines the ideology of cultural
superiority, and provides a passionate account of how these
immigrant intellectuals -- homeless compradors, and guns for hire
-- continue to betray any notion of home or country in order to
manufacture consent for imperial projects.
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