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Orientalism

Hello My Concubine (So-Called Trends)

Disgrasian | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Exoticism, China Concubines, Fear of China, Mistresses, Marriage Infidelity, China Rumors, Orientalism, China Mistresses, Reporting, China Capitalism, Infidelity, Modern Concubine, Fetishes, China's Concubines Make a Comeback, Concubines, Culture of Concubines, China, Sexual Fetishes, World News
Disgrasian

I began to wonder what the difference was between a concubine and a mistress. Was it only semantics? Or was there some kind of legal difference?

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Speaking Truth to Power: The Mythology of Imperialism

Rick Ayers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature, Academia, Imperialism, Critical Theory, Orientalism, Books News
Rick Ayers

When I decided to teach Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness at Berkeley High School, it had been out of favor as an appropriate text because it was considered too controversial.

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Marie Claire's Asian "Trophy Wives": We're Not Only Fetish Objects, We're Brain-Dead, Too

Disgrasian | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Interracial Dating, Exoticism, Wendi Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch Wendi Deng, Sexual Politics, Asian Americans, Interracial Marriage, Marie Claire, Soon-Yi Previn, Orientalism, Suzie Wong, Marie Claire Asian Trophy Wives Article, Fetishes, Asians, Richard Bernstein, Asian Fetish, Sex, Trophy Wives, Geishas, Sexual Fetishes, Media News
Disgrasian

The complications of sexual politics notwithstanding, fetishists are easy to spot. They come at you with their prayer-bead bracelets and their suspiciously in-depth knowledge of your "culture."

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