Sentence examples for subject of colonialism from inspiring English sources

While the subject of colonialism and its legacy is currently out of vogue in mainstream American art, for the larger world, including Africa, it is not a matter of fashion, but of reality, past, present and, possibly, future.

"Tabu," one of the most widely lauded movies on the festival circuit this year, was also shortlisted for a European Parliament award for films that resonate with the "public debate," an apparent acknowledgment of its unusual approach to the ever thorny subject of colonialism.

The novelist grabbed the subject of colonialism "so firmly and fairly," John Updike wrote in The New Yorker in the 1970s, "that the book's tragedy, like Greek tragedy, felt tonic; a space had been cleared, an understanding had been achieved, a new beginning was implied".

For many who survey an African landscape strewn with political wreckage, nowadays merely to raise the subject of European colonialism, which formally ended across most of the continent five decades ago, is to ring alarm bells of excuse making.

Throughout his career, Dr. Maybury-Lewis resisted the criticism that anthropologists might contribute to the decline of their subjects, as tools of colonialism or as unwitting corrupters by their very presence.

Mr. Blessing has a handy knack for domesticating seemingly unruly subject matter: the violent legacy of colonialism, the responsibility of Western governments to confront the carnage in Africa, the moral argument for sacrificing one life to save many.

For example, Jacopetti and Prosperi's tellingly titled Africa Blood and Guts (1966) took as its subject the violent end of colonialism in a variety of African territories in the 1960s.

The strongest predictor of slum incidence as revealed in the study is the duration of colonialism.

"The national governments are an extension of colonialism," Khatir says.

They didn't even think of colonialism as a matter of race," she said.

The "Babar" series of books has long been the subject of ferocious debates about its status as a propagandistic celebration of colonialism.