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Devoid of archival sources and tainted with inaccuracies—oil, of course, and not Israel, was America’s Middle East priority—“The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” was even less academically sound than Orientalism. Utterly ignored were the vast advantages that Israel afforded the United States in intelligence sharing, weapons development, and
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Racist voting policy has evolved from disenfranchising by Jim Crow voting laws to disenfranchising by mass incarceration and voter-ID laws.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Adding insult to injury, we’re professionally trained and rewarded to make White people the default referent group that Blacks are measured against. In doing so, we acquire a tendency to center White people in our work.
Andre M. Perry • Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
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Such trends compelled me to stand my ground. I worked to expose Said’s Orientalism screed, noting that the first experts on the Middle East came from Germany and Hungary, neither of which ever colonized the region.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
respectively—transforms colonial possession into benign and mutually agreeable exchanges, all the while disguising the material, economic, and political conditions under which colonized islanders labored.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
That eight-to-one casualty ratio was typical, something one would not have known from much of the American media coverage.