Bono's hubristic declaration that he "he represents a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all …. They haven’t asked me to represent them. It’s cheeky but I hope they’re glad I do' smacks of celebrity colonialism–a rather glamorized ba
Bono declares: "I represent a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all.... They haven't asked me to represent them. It's cheeky but I hope they're glad I do." I am not at all glad...the agency of many Africans is suppressed because people like
Excerpt from ‘The Soles of Black Folk: These Reeboks were Made for Runnin’ (from the White Man). "...to theorize is often a homicidal act, a killing of the heterogeneity of the world, a knife thrust into the very heart of life"
A new generation of historians is exploring some of the untold stories of the civil rights movement and its legacies: the experiences not of heroes or murderous villains, but of ordinary Southern whites.