Discussing Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities published by Belknap Press.
Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities.
In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority.
Launch party for the US publication of Gina Apostol s Philippine National Book Award-winning novel Revolution According to Ramundo Mata
Join Gina Apostol and friends for the launch party of the first ever US publication of Gina Apostol s Philippine National Book Award-winning novel
Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
published by Soho Press
Raymundo Mata is a nightblind bookworm and a revolutionary in the Philippine war against Spain in 1896. Told in the form of a memoir, the novel traces Mata s childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, and his discovery of the books of the man who becomes the nation s great hero José Rizal (Rizal, in real life, is executed by the Spaniards for writing two great novels that spark revolution the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. At the time Rizal died, he was working on a third novel, Makamisa).