HUMA 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: New Imperialism, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), Satya
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Colonialism: we have to make a distinction between two forms: old imperialism and new imperialism, old: 1492-19th century, new: from the 19th century onward, american slavery is a result of old imperialism. Europeans understand themselves as civilized and proper as the rational and orderly forms of society and everyone else is a kind of barbarian. Europeans are going to go and bring civilization to these un-civilized people. world is changing and becoming more and more modern, going for god, gold. Education and freedom: the central theme of the narrative is the importance of education and freedom and for himself education was actually the key to his freedom and articulated his future and what it would be. De-colonization: after wwi and wwii there is a de-colonial process. In some cases, european powers let go of the colonies (they are finically broke and the colonies are a pain: the colonies have had enough of european power.
