For a black audience, many of whom would rather not dwell on the depth of one-time subjugation?
In the first of his eight-volume memoir, he describes the era before his birth as a time of subjugation and national humiliation for the Korean race, and trumpets the new era of his guerrilla struggle.
Seen at the third performance, the new opera hardly portrays the place as a bygone utopia and in a cultural clash with the Hebrews — then experiencing a time of subjugation known as the Babylonian Captivity — Babylon comes off as less enlightened in persisting with human sacrifice.
At times, this subjugation can be subtle, for example in the proliferation of gender stereotypes in TV and cinema.
Our expectations of Doctor Who include effortless time travel and subjugation of foreign or alien evil genius through cunning application of high intelligence.
White women who agree that we should "make America great again" ought to recall the time when terror and subjugation were commonplace for them too.
On air, she is systematically diverted from this "American Idol" fantasy into captivity as a sex-film starlet; he, striving to avenge her subjugation by getting time on the show and speaking truth to power, is likewise led to commercialize his outrage, as if Howard Beale in "Network" signed a long-term contract hosting kitchen-gizmo infomercials.
Profoundly then, and not for the first time in the history of subjugation, dance provided an outlet.
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By the time of the Spanish conquest, Mayan civilization was thoroughly in decline, yet the Maya resisted subjugation longer than either the Aztecs of Mexico or the Incas of Peru.
As the South was again becoming a national pariah, this time for its defense of racial subjugation, the dominant Crimson Tide was "a potent symbol of pride and cultural vitality to white Southerners in the midst of profound social transformation," Doyle wrote in his paper "Bear Bryant: A Symbol for an Embattled South".
