Brown Skin, White Masks

In this unprecedented study, Hamid Dabashi provides a critical examination of the role that immigrant comprador intellectuals...
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Author: Hamid Dabashi
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Brown Skin, White Masks by Dabashi, Hamid

Brown Skin, White Masks

€73,34

Brown Skin, White Masks

€73,34
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 powers to misrepresent 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--rootless compradors, and guns for hire-continue to betray any notion of home or country in order to manufacture consent for imperial projects.

Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 01/18/2011
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780745328737

About the Author
Hamid Dabashi is the author of 18 books and countless articles. An internationally-renowned cultural critic and award-winning writer, his books and articles have been translated into numerous languages. His books include Theology of Discontent (1993), Iran: A People Interrupted (2007), and Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire (2008).


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