What Edward Said thinks about racism
Literary critic (1935 to 2003) whose Orientalism (1978) argued that Western scholarship and art about the East were bound up with Western power over it.
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1 dated position, c. 1978, in their own words. Our reading of what Edward Said has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsevery European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
↗Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978)archive.org All 6 from this book