First, there are always dissenters within each group who speak out against the new corporate identity, and they are especially likely to be taken seriously by the very audiences targeted by strategic essentialism. Second, white conservatives have caught on to this strategy: they routinely denounce affirmative action, for instance, by quoting Martin Luther King, as if his only goal was “color blindness” rather than real economic and social equality. They snipe, fairly effectively, at any group which puts forward corporate claims for any ethnic group by calling them racist

Third, some critics argue that the term misleadingly implies that colonialism is over when in fact most of the nations involved are still culturally and economically subordinated to the rich industrial states through various forms of neo-colonialism even though they are technically independent.

What all of these schools of thought have in common is a determination to analyze unjust power relationships as manifested in cultural products like literature (and film, art, etc.). Practitioners generally consider themselves politically engaged and committed to some variety or other of liberation process.

In strictly definitional terms, for instance, the United States might also be described as a postcolonial country, but it is not perceived as such because of its position of power in world politics in the present, its displacement of native American populations, and its annexation of other parts of the world in what may be seen as a form of colonization

The sheer extent and duration of the European empire and its disintegration after the Second World War have led to widespread interest in postcolonial literature and criticism in our own times.

By rejecting “basic skills” as dogmatically as conservatives endorse it, left-istserr, Lazere contends, in failing to see that basic skills instruction “mightbe a force for liberation—not oppression—if administered with common sense,openness to cultural pluralism, and an application of basics toward criticalthinking, particularly about sociopolitical issues, rather than rote memoriz-ing

This example is meant to suggest that rhetorical grammar analysis canform the basis for wider analyses of civic discourse, enabling students to honein on the specific grammatical choices that give shape and meaning to con-tent.

This goal is especially important at the present time, as political dissentis increasingly under suspicion, and the USA Patriot Act of 2001 threatensspeech acts both within and beyond the classroom.

Commonplace books encourage students to read and analyze texts asskillfully crafted documents that convey and perform different kinds of mean-ings—among them, aesthetic, rhetorical, and political

Onecomes to know the nature of this machinery through watching how it func-tions and using it for oneself, rather than by visualizing or possessing it as a setof properties

A familiar argumentagainst teaching formal grammar, particularly forceful since the rise of pro-cess pedagogies, insists that integrating grammar instruction would danger-ously reduce time spent on higher-order concerns like invention andarrangement. Another argument contends that if students can’t articulate theirideas in a comprehensible form, correct grammar does nothing to improvetheir writing.

If enlightened and responsible leaders with rhetorical knowledge and skill arenot trained and nurtured, irresponsible demagogues will monopolize their powerof rhetoric,

These are the hallmarks of formal grammar in-struction, the deadening effects of which are widely known

Rhetorical grammar instruction, I argue here, is just as central tocomposition’s driving commitment to teach critical thinking and cultural cri-

The ability to develop sentences andform paragraphs that serve a particular purpose requires a conceptual abilityto envision relationships between ideas.

a discourse that takes seriously the connectionbetween writing and thinking, the interwoven relationship between what wesay and how we say it

Captain Delano, now with scales dropped from his eyes, saw the negroes, not in misrule, not in tumult, not as if frantically concerned for Don Benito, but with mask torn away, flourishing hatchets and knives, in ferocious piratical revolt

sooty avalanche over the bulwarks.

Or else–give way for your lives,” he wildly added, starting at a clattering hubbub in the ship, above which rang the tocsin of the hatchet-polishers; and seizing Don Benito by the throat he added, “this plotting pirate means murder!

I can go no further; here I must bid you adieu. Adieu, my dear, dear Don Amasa. Go–go!” suddenly tearing his hand loose, “go, and God guard you better than me, my best friend

his pleased surprise, saw Don Benito advancing–an unwonted energy in his air, as if, at the last moment, intent upon making amends for his recent discourtesy.

During this interval, a sort of saddened satisfaction stole over Captain Delano, at thinking of the kindly offices he had that day discharged for a stranger. Ah, thought he, after good actions one’s conscience is never ungrateful, however much so the benefited party may be.

Jew

“Ah now, pardon me, but that is treating the poor fellow like an ex-king indeed. Ah, Don Benito,” smiling, “for all the license you permit in some things, I fear lest, at bottom, you are a bitter hard master.”

He proved the same man who had behaved with so shame-faced an air on the windlass. “Ah,–it is you, my man,” exclaimed Captain Delano–“well, no more sheep’s-eyes now;–look straight forward and keep the ship so. Good hand, I trust? And want to get into the harbor, don’t you?”

Delano could hardly avoid some little tinge of irritation upon being left ungratified in so inconsiderable a wish, by one, too, for whom he intended such solid services.

He inquired how it was that the scurvy and fever should have committed such wholesale havoc upon the whites, while destroying less than half of the blacks. As if this question reproduced the whole scene of plague before the Spaniard’s

there he nods, and bows, and smiles; a king, indeed–the king of kind hearts and polite fellows. What a pleasant voice he has, too

King George’s of England

that when a mulatto has a regular European face, look out for him; he is a dev

Barbadoes

But a sort of love-quarrel, after all, thought Captain Delano.

his seems a sort of dormitory, sitting-room, sail-loft, chapel, armory, and private closet all together, Don Benito,

Then if master means to talk more to Don Amasa,” said the servant, “why not let Don Amasa sit by master in the cuddy, and master can talk, and Don Amasa can listen, while Babo here lathers and strops.” “Yes,” said Captain Delano, not unpleased with this sociable plan, “yes, Don Benito, unless you had rather not, I will go with you.” “Be it so, Señor.”

Ashantee

“Canton.” “And there, Señor, you exchanged your sealskins for teas and silks, I think you said?” “Yes, Silks, mostly.” “And the balance you took in specie, perhaps?” Captain Delano, fidgeting a little, answered– “Yes; some silver; not a very great deal, though.” “Ah–well. May I ask how many men have you, Señor?” Captain Delano slightly started, but answered– “About five-and-twenty, all told.” “And at present, Señor, all on board, I suppose?” “All on board, Don Benito,” replied the Captain, now with satisfaction. “And will be to-night, Señor?”

that you would find it advantageous to keep all your blacks employed, especially the younger ones, no matter at what useless task, and no matter what happens

Charles V., ju

But trusting this would not long last,

Not many minutes after the boat’s pushing off, to the vexation of all, the wind entirely died away, and the tide turning, began drifting back the ship helplessly seaward

Castile and Leon

like three ruinous aviaries, in one of which was seen, perched, on a ratlin, a white noddy, a strange fowl, so called from its lethargic, somnambulistic character, being frequently caught by hand at sea.

Acapulco

amongst other valuable freight

observing that, the ship, in navigating into the harbor, was drawing too near the land; a sunken reef making out off her bow.

Thus hath the Lord brought me and mine out of that horrible pit, and hath set us in the midst of tender-hearted and compassionate Christians. It is the desire of my soul that we may walk worthy of the mercies received, and which we are receiving.

Rhode Island had sent over for our daughter

There I met with my brother, and my brother-in-law, who asked me, if I knew where his wife was

Agag

the whole land

Oh, that my People had hearkened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways, I should soon have subdued their Enemies, and turned my hand against their Adversarie

I can but stand in admiration to see the wonderful power of God in providing for such a vast number of our enemies in the wilderness

The chief and commonest food was ground nuts. They eat also nuts and acorns, artichokes, lilly roots, ground beans, and several other weeds and roots, that I know not.

trangely did the Lord provide for them; that I did not see (all the time I was among them) one man, woman, or child, die with hunger.

Banquang

I cannot but remember how the Indians derided the slowness, and dullness of the English army, in its setting out

Then I took it of the child, and eat it myself, and savory it was to my taste

captive condition.

He told me he saw him such a time in the Bay, and he was well, but very melancholy

Hadley

my spirit was now quite ready to sink

papoose

Bay

Mine eyes have seen that fellow afterwards walking up and down Boston, under the appearance of a Friend Indian, and several others of the like cu

Psalm

sannup

He answered me “Nux,” which did much rejoice my spirit.

Yet notwithstanding, somebody stole it, but put five Indian corns in the room of it; which corns were the greatest provisions I had in my travel for one day

There was a squaw who spake to me to make a shirt for her sannup, for which she gave me a piece of bear. Another asked me to knit a pair of stockings, for which she gave me a quart of peas

Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me

The cause of this rout was, as I thought, their espying some English scouts, who were thereabout. In this travel up the river about noon the company made a stop, and sat down

Eighth

The first week of my being among them I hardly ate any thing; the second week I found my stomach grow very faint for want of something; and yet it was very hard to get down their filthy trash; but the third week, though I could think how formerly my stomach would turn against this or that, and I could starve and die before I could eat such things, yet they were sweet and savory to my taste

to which they answered me they would break my face

On the Saturday they boiled an old horse’s leg which they had got, and so we drank of the broth, as soon as they thought it was ready, and when it was almost all gone, they filled it up again

Jehu

Then they went and showed me where it was, where I saw the ground was newly digged, and there they told me they had buried it

ix years, and five months old

your master will quickly knock your child in the head

My wounds stink and are corrupt, I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly, I go mourning all the day long.

Captain Beer’s fight

King Philip

Wenimesset

from Wednesday night to Saturday night, except only a little cold water

having no Christian friend near me,

through the wound

After this it quickly began to snow

like inhumane creatures, laughed, and rejoiced to see it

as the Indians told me.

Lancaster

What, will you love English men still?” This was the dolefulest night that ever my eyes saw

Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell

barbarous creatures

The First Remove

a mighty race

Wabanaki

Now the boy had strange gifts, and the wise men said that he was born to become a mighty magician

But it shall be to your exceeding great sorrow that ever ye inquired. From this day ye may feed yourselves and find your own venison, for this child shall do so no more for you

fall of the first man in having transgressed the command of God

All this she was heard to say ere she went onward and up the mountain, but for three years she was never seen again.

a very clever story-teller

Mount Katahdin