Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Is the word "civilization," evoked by Bush in contemporary times, the direct genealogical descendant of the mission civilatrice evoked by his Anglo Saxon predecessors to justify their onslaught on the native inhabitants of the land they have chosen to settle and appropriate? Is the contemporary project by the current political elites of the US to "spread democracy in the Middle East" the same as and co-equal with the mission to civilize the "beast" in the lands where "beasts" wandered two centuries ago? If the ethno/race of the old mission was Anglo Saxon, what is its contemporary ethnic/race today? Does the election of Obama complicate this question?
Publication Citation
1 Geo. J.L. & Mod. Critical Race Persp. 111 (2009)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Abu-Odeh, Lama, "Reactions: Natsu Taylor Saito's 'Colonial Presumptions: The War on Terror and the Roots of American Exceptionalism'" (2009). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1634.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1634