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Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation
Duke University Press
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978-0-8223-7383-4
Publication date:
2016
The turn to nationalism in the Third World and cultural nationalism in the United States betrayed the transnational ambitions of Third World studies. While in resistance to colonialism, nationalism is not the final answer to imperialism, nor is it the highest expression of self-determination. Nationalism in fact privileges the few at the expense of the many, and the nation-state installs and interpellates hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, class, and citizenship.
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