HIST 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Edward Said, Acculturation, American Century
Class note 17
Clitoridectomy
"female circumcision", as a part of initiation rites marking her coming-of-age.
Gikuyu people practice it and was a prerequisite for adults and marriage
Jomo Kenyatta
Leader of the nonviolent nationalist party in Kenya; organized the Kenya Africa
Union (KAU); failed to win concessions because of resistance of white settlers;
came to power only after suppression of the Land Freedom Army, or Mau Mau
Mau Mau
State of Emergency 1952-1960
After killing a white farmer and African chief loyalist. British killed thousands in
their attacks of Kikuyu villages. British slaughtered livestock, burned crops, and
hung over 1000 Africans in the first year. Failed militarily, but brought
international attention to the brutality, and pushed the British to accept Kenyan
independence
Globalization
The late twentieth-century condition of encounter and interdependence across
cultures, societies, nations, and regions marking changes in world political
economic/cultural) structures after World War II (post-1945) - notably the rise of
the United States and decolonization of the formerly colonized world
WW1 & WW2
a deep contraction of global economic linkages as the aftermath
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