She defines the contact zone as being the "social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today." ... One of the examples that stick out in my head is her story of her son and baseball. ...
The novel, Robinson Crusoe, written by Daniel Defoe and first published in 1719, is an important literary piece of the Enlightenment period, as it expresses the Enlightenment themes of individualism, exploration and the rejection of authority. The poet James Joyce has described the character of Robinson Crusoe as the "true prototype of the British colonist"1, and Robinson Crusoe certainly shares many of the characteristics associated with British colonists of the period in which the novel was written. Robinson Crusoe exerts his manly independence by being the lone survivor from the...
Neo-Racism When I walk around my campus, specifically when I wonder around the HUB (a common area for us college kids to eat, relax, study), it is hard for me to not notice the color line separating my peers. ... My problem isn't within the fact that each of the groups mentioned consist of people primarily of one race, my issue lies within the statements made by my peers that are in those groups. ... To clarify my point, I will state it's okay to have different societies that are primarily one race, as long as that society respects and values the differences of other races and are ab...
