Colonization Article Reviews Samples For Students

Critical review of Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa

Nwando Achebe gives cases of women in Africa who have been able to occupy a variety of leadership roles. She states that traditionally women mainly held power due to their relationship with the particular rulers especially as mothers, sisters or daughter to the rulers. She moves ahead and illustrates his assertion by giving examples of women who were guided by great leaders who in most cases were their close relatives. For instance Ahebi Ugbabe, among the Igbo, assumed royal powers and dressed in the king’s attire pending the installation of the next ruler (Lindsay, Lisa & Miescher, 53). This illustrates ...

Introduction

The world food system has been in dynamism since the development of food trade and the need to create consumer preferences as demanded by every company or nation that had got the opportunity to produce, market and distribute food commodities (Leong-Salobir, 2011). This lead to expansion of agro-food based industries. This expansion however, being more effective and significant to the superior countries proved to be severe and detrimental to the colonized state. The Author puts the severity of this change as beyond the colonized nation’s individual’s health challenges. For instance the French food policy changes dictated the ...

Summary: Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities

Summary: Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities

Purpose
- Kaomea’s first and foremost purpose through this article was to reveal how the educational system in Hawai’i and other previously colonized places, favours colonialist, indifferent, non-traditional and oppressive tendencies of schooling.
- The article tries to prove the prevailing disembodiment and demotivation of the kupana (meaning ancestral, traditional, of the forefathers) by the schooling system in Hawai’i and address the reasons for such developments
- The article tries to put forward the availability of ...

The discourse on colonialism is a text that probes us to look into the differences between colonization and civilization brought about by Europeans. Though colonialists took over the control of various states with the claim of civilization, they were more interested in their own gains in colonization; their hypocritical nature regarded their faith and race as civilized while disregarding those of Indians, Negroes and yellow people (Cesaire, 1972).
In my opinion, colonization has actually had a backward effect, especially on the colonizer; the drive to have power over other individuals has awakened in him primitive urges; hatred for fellow man, ...

Women and Gender Studies

Article Review: Equity Study In Canada: Race, class and gender paradigms in Canada
Complex societies like Canada had a variety of challenges in terms of race, gender, and class imbalance. Razack, 1990 explains the various paradigms that determine each factor in the course of action. This review draws from a variety of major theoretical orientations that define the art of true activism. Race being vital in this outlook determines a complete set of nuances rather than other values like societies, gender, and class. These elements provide major inequities of all times. There is a critical interlocking between the major activities and the ...

James Walvin in his article “A taste of empire” examines the role colonization played in the localization of activities such as tea drinking, tobacco smoking, and chocolate consumption into British culture. “Yet, each and many more of these habits is only British by adoption. The peculiarly British customs associated with these traditions were developed in a relatively short period, and involved commodities imported from every edge of colonial settlement and trade” (Walvin 11). Walvin states that tea started out as a primarily luxurious commodity only meant for the elite but with time grew to form a core part of every Briton’s ...

The Latin American countries have for a long time waged war against imperialism and neo-colonialism by the developed countries. In the heart of neo-colonialism is capitalist imperialism that is characterized by predatory activities of countries that seek to reap big from the less developed country’s resources. Despite the fact that Canada does not regard itself as a capitalistic nation, its large-scale involvement in mining investments in Latin America gives quite a different picture. The mining industry has always been frowned upon and although it is one of the most lucrative businesses, its eventual effect on the population and ...

Module

In the article one of the chiefs of the Indian Abenakis addresses the Captain Phineas Stevens and through him the Governor of Boston and the English people as a whole denouncing their plans for colonial expansion in their lands. While he asserts that his people want to live in peace, he notes that they are free and condemns the English as aggressive. The speaker condemns a recent survey of the Abenaki lands by English inhabitants of the city of Boston and urges for the punishment of the surveyors by the Governor and the immediate halt for any plans for further actions ...

Article Review - Henri II

In "Criticizing the Savage and Making a King: The Royal Entry Festival of Henri II (Rouen, 1550)," Wintroub (1998) examines the royal entry festival that was held in the city of Rouen in 1550 to honor King Henri II. In particular, the article focuses on the reproduction of a Brazilian village that was created for the festival, within which there were fifty Brazilians to inhabit the village. The creation of this village, and the interaction between the Brazilians and the people of France, creates a number of interesting social questions regarding perceptions of other cultures in the Middle Ages. The use of ...

Identity is constructed in and through others. It is closely related to gender which is the social ideological construction of the meaning of the biological sex attributes of an individual. At birth and subsequently however, a baby is subjected to differential treatment by the society in which it is born, depending on the sex. For, to each sex, society gives as a cause, a different meaning and reacts accordingly. As a result, gender imbalances between males and females are nurtured, invariably and mostly to the disadvantage of the females, resulting in diverse gender inequalities throughout the life experiences of an individual. As such, ...