Even more concerning for Lange has been the exportation of these colonial expressions of worship around the world.
If exiled Palestinians were to return to Israel and if Israel ended its occupation, the term "birthright Israel" would go down in the dustbin of history, along with other colonial expressions such as "white man's burden".
Her dissertation explores post-colonial expressions of national identity in Francophone West Africa, and the discursive milieu which influenced creative exploration at mid-century, including the work of ethnographers, writers, and artists alongside architects.
Spaniards introduced writing in the 16th century; colonial literary expression included chronicles and religious literature.
In the northern mining towns popular African discontent found effective expression against colonial rule, especially after the federation (1953) of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and under the leadership of Kenneth Kaunda.
In enacting the law on films and stage plays in Kenya, the colonial state viewed artistic expression as inherently subversive and disruptive of the status quo … When art is truthful and fulfilling its social function, it shows the world as changeable and helps in changing it," Kimani Njogu, a respected linguist and writer, wrote in the Nation newspaper last week.
In Chamoiseau's hands, the French language of Martinique not only addresses the questions of negritude, it acknowledges both its African and its colonial past, taking the expressions of its ancient overlords and twisting them into extraordinary forms.
Franz Fanon, a trained psychiatrist and prominent revolutionary, theorized that political violence is a life-affirming force in anti-colonial struggles -- an expression of counterviolence that constitutes a therapeutic moment in the cleansing of the psyche of the oppressed.
It is white privilege that provides Die Antwoord with the means to "borrow" from aspects of black cultural expression and project colonial notions of blackness.
