Quotes by Said, Edward

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. >>

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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is America. This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation.

Said, Edward