culture and imperialism

Edward Said

Culture and Imperialism, New York: Random House, 1993

Edward W. Said’s Culture and Imperialism should be required reading. While it focuses on literature, the book elucidates a great deal more broadly about the role of aesthetics and culture in furthering imperialism. In doing so, it exposes roots of various exploitative practices that pervade the arts, museums, funding, etc. Said’s attention to counternarratives is vital. Too often we don’t learn about the many ways people fought domination. As an art historian and curator, Culture and Imperialism helps me oppose that persistent neutrality myth/scam that various people in hegemonic museum spaces use to maintain and consolidate power for themselves.

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