The Nation & Its Fragments: Colonial & Postcolonial Histories

5 best books like The Nation & Its Fragments: Colonial & Postcolonial Histories (Partha Chatterjee): Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, The Wretched of the Earth, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Author

bell hooks

White male scholars who examined the black family by attempting to see in what ways it resembled the white family structure were confident that their data was not biased by their own personal prejudices against women assuming an active role in family decision-making. But it must be remembered that...

The Wretched of the Earth

Author	Frantz Fanon
ISBN	0802141323

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Author	Linda Tuhiwai Smith
ISBN	1856496244

From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples. Here, an...

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition

Author	Dipesh Chakrabarty
ISBN	0691130019

First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues,...

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Author	Arjun Appadurai
ISBN	0816627932

The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai...