Slavery, Colonialism, Miscegenation

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Slavery, Colonialism, Miscegenation

• Ramon Saldivar
• Stanford University

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The Colonial Subject

• The American Caribbean
• The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi
• Haiti and Caribbean colonial Society
• Mulattos and Mestizos

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Sutpen and American Racism

• Race as A kind of speculative antagonism
  Absalom, p. 186
• Race and the Enactment of Identity
• Race not an essential category
• Identity as ethical commitment and subjective
  assignment
• Race, Class, and Misogyny

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The Rule of the White Father

• The contradictions of exclusion
• The seduction of power and dominance
• The boy-symbol at the door