GE CLST 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arab Americans, Binary Relation, Edward Said
1 Feb 2016
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Only 24 people were killed by islamic radicals after 9/11. 280,024 people killed by gun violence in the us in the same time period. 28 people were killed by white supremacists in same time period. What are the national debates in the us? the fear and anxiety that we have heightened the fear of muslim attacks. We live in a time where we only focus in the moment. We can"t focus on today if we don"t consider the past. Orientalists: scholars who study middle east, its languages, cultures, religions, and history. A serious pursuit of knowledge about the middle east. A late 18th century and early 19th century phenomenon. Victor hugo: in the age of louis xiv we were hellenists, today we are orientalists (1829) The work of anyone who teaches and writes about the middle east. The ensemble of institutions in the west dealing with the region. A style of thought marked by a hierarchical binary relation between.
