Senegalese Soldiers: The Aftermath Of The 20th Century

Fanon also discusses the psychological effects that force can have on one in this process of colonization. Fanon finds that the labeling of people as the colonizer and the colonized can result in the dehumanization of the latter, as they are being relegated as “the other” (3). This notion relates to Weil’s definition of force as man is being turned into a “thing,” stripped of his identity (Weil, 6). Furthermore, it is stated in the piece that “the very same people who had [force] constantly drummed into them that the only language they understood was that of force, now decide to express themselves with force” (42). This excerpt assists in illustrating how the concept of force acts within a cycle of sorts, as one needs to use force in order to escape force. This notion relates back to the film The Battle of Algiers as the Algerian people, more specifically those of the National Liberation Front (FLN), had to use force in order to prevent colonization and further force from the French government. Fanon directly touches on the Battle of Algiers in his piece, stating that “mental illness and the rampant development of specific pathological conditions” were an outcome for many Algerians due to the war (216). These pathological conditions caused by colonization also relate to Weil’s definition of force as both Weil and Fanon are contending

In The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi’s essential argument is that the collapse of colonialism is inevitable. According to Memmi, there are only two answers for the colonized to disrupt the system of oppression. The two possible “solutions” are assimilation and revolt. In response to the marginalization of the colonized, both answers carry a high price. In Memmi’s eyes, neither will work in the end. The first of two answers on the road to collapsing colonization is assimilation. Imitation and compromise are not the answer to decolonizing, for neither the colonized nor the colonizer.

The process of decolonization proved to have its own struggles within those who were seeking their independence from imperialist powers. Evidently, these nationalist movements were different in many regions, but they generally shared the sentiment that “Westernization” had taken something away from them. This proved to be the case in Africa and Asia, where the colonization movement from imperialist powers was of strong presence, and that had trouble weakening during and after the Cold War. Part of this struggle was due to the forms of government that were imposed, and because many of these colonies had been in this position for such long time that they were not able to predict upcoming conflicts after their independence. However, in many cases, the problems were more complicated and often implied a combination of reaction to westernization and internal conflicts. Undoubtedly,

Late in 1917, the War Department created two all-black infantry divisions, the 93rd Infantry Division and the 92nd Infantry Division in World War I. Major Arthur Little of 93rd Division said “There are no American troops anywhere near us. Our great American general simply put the black orphan in a basket, set us on the doorstep of the French, pulled the bell, and went away” (Hanson 111). America was looking for anyway to get away from black troops. By dropping them with the French it meant that they were still in the war and America did not seem prejudice toward blacks. When the first black combat troops arrived in France in December, 1917, there was some controversy as to what to do with them. Once in the hands of the blacks America did not care anymore, for their hands were wiped clean of them. War in France was not bad according to the book “Freedom Struggles”. The book states “French soldiers treated them like comrades, giving the first casualty of their unit ‘a hero’s burial’ and expressly thanking black troops for their service” (Lentz-Smith 139). The French did many things for black soldiers that American military leaders would not allow. Giving thanks for their

Erez Manela’s The Wilsonian Moment Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism is a monograph that attempts to reconstruct the story of colonial world at the end of Wilsonian moment. The book’s title, The Wilsonian Moment is alluding to the crucial period that lasted from autumn of 1918 to spring of 1919, when the Allied victory were confident that President Woodrow Wilson’s ideas for a new world will become successful until the terms of the Treaty of Versailles became public and the failure of the Wilson’s promise became evident. Erez Manela says, “The focus of this book is on the specific significance of Wilsonian moment in the colonial world, defined broadly as the dependent or semi dependent territories that encompassed at the time almost all of Asia and Africa”(8). Manela demonstrates how Woodrow Wilson’s post-war rhetoric on self-determination, a concept that firmly believes all nations should be able to determine for their futures and governance impacted several anti colonial movements by using Egypt, India, China, and Korea as case studies. In these case studies, Manela explicitly exhibits how colonized countries received and interpreted Wilson’s rhetoric, and applied it to their local struggle for independence. These four countries actively fought for their independence, but their arguments were dismissed at the Paris Peace Conference for different reasons. Manela tells us,” The “revolt against the West,” emerged “not from the

With the passing of decades, humanity has been mentioning more and more the presence of violence in our daily lives. We see it online, news, social media, it is absolutely taking over a great fragment of our lives. But is this violence aspect of humanity a recent thing? If we take a look back to earlier human civilization, there has always been a violent essence in the way we think and act. The main focus of this essay is to discuss, and compare 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup to The Things They carried by Tim O’Brien.

“Black Jack” Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, indicated in a private remark that it revealed the untruthful attitude towards the African American soldiers. The patriotism of African American troops was not acknowledged by white military as they deserved. Due to the unequal treatment from the whites, the way the French treated the African Americans during the World War I significantly modified the views of African Americans and encouraged a positive change in America. The French people had clearly demonstrated that they did not hold similar racial attitudes as whites in America, contrastingly the African American soldier was treated with an unprecedented degree of equality, respect, integration, and

In Harrison Bergeron apathy toward violence is taken to the extreme by dumbing humanity down to point that a child’s own parents are barely affected by their son’s death. This demonstrates how the normalization of violence and dehumanization keeps the powerful in power. Just as Diana Moon Glampers exerts excessive control so does the government in “Welcome to the Monkey House”. By removing people’s sexual desires, they have in a way dehumanized them. This dehumanization is also seen in the government’s promotion of ethical suicide, demonstrated in the population thermometer. The value of human life has become non-existent to the people in

The most critical part of the story, as I would like to think, is the juxtaposition of force and control. It demonstrates that to pick up force does not as a matter of course mean picking up control. Control takes more than simply power, and power takes cautious control keeping in mind the end goal to be connected. What's more, similar to the storyteller said in the story, being despot, which can likewise be deciphered as being one who have predominance and force against another, implies devastating your own flexibility. Force can be a twofold edged sword if not utilized legitimately. Unreasonable force implies over the top weight, and to take after the weight implies every one of those force are controlling the proprietor. The colonization

This essay has two different levels of colonized people: the prisoners and the condemned. Orwell

Antoinette allows herself to be swayed too easily, and as a result resigns what little free will she did have by finally agreeing to the marriage. So, although Rochester, who represents neo-colonists, is at fault for placing undue pressure on Antionette; she ultimately shares in the blame as well for not asserting herself strongly enough. The theme of the importance of self-assertion is present throughout Said’s book Culture and Imperialism. As for example, in the following quotation, “...people [the colonized] on whom the economy and polity sustained by empire depend...whose reality has not historically or culturally required attention” (Said 64). Because the culture of the colonized becomes dominated by the culture of the colonizer, which is analogous to how Antoinette was dominated by Rochester, their unique history, culture, and identity becomes secondary.

Frantz Fanon argues the decolonization must always be a violent phenomenon because resisting a colonizing power using only politics will not work. Europeans justified colonization by treating it as gods work. They believed that god wanted then to occupy all lands and spread the word of god to savages of darker skin color. Fanon joined the Algerian Nationalist Movement when the Algeria was being colonized be the French. Many examples of violence written of in The Wretched of the Earth were taken from the struggle for independence in Algeria. Also the writing is sympathetic towards colonized natives. Fanon claims decolonization causes violent actions from both settlers and natives and creates intolerant

words, if decolonization is a process in which " 'The last [native] shall be first and the first [settler] last, ' this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between two protagonists" (37). In these contexts, Fanon argues clearly that all of oppressions represented by colonialism and imperialism are violent in nature and must be destroyed only by greater violence:

In Frantz Fanon’s text “Concerning Violence” he establishes his response to colonization and decolonization to be the simple act of violence against the oppressor. I find that Fanon’s reasoning’s for using the sole practice of violence to directly reflect his past experiences. Fanon was affected directly and indirectly by experiencing the Fascist and Colonial violence as an African man and also witnessing the atrocities of his peers while growing up in Martinique. He also witnessed the atrocities of WWII when he fought against Nazi Germany and during the Algerian War as Algerians tried to gain independence from France. His only answer to the dehumanizing violent atrocities was to fight back with extreme violence to regain freedom from the world’s

Living in the same region for an extended period of time will endow the human inhabitant with a sense of pride in their homeland. When this idea is extended to a certain group of people living in the same area, pride turns into nationalism. The residents not only feel like they geographically own the land, but their history of culture in that given area lends them an emotional connection as well. When people of elsewhere come to take the land from the native inhabitants, many changes occur. In his book The Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon gives his insight into how the process of colonization and decolonization happens, and the resulting physical and mental effects on both groups of people. Telling this from a strictly historical and