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anticolonialism

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  • noun The movement that opposes colonialism.

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Examples

  • I've read the transcript of the press conference, and Obama didn't make a single reference to British Petroleum -- a name which, in any event, is commonly used by many people of a certain age (including me) who are sworn enemies of anticolonialism.

    The Weekly Standard (sort of) defends Obama E.J. Dionne 2010

  • Their grandfathers likely would not have shared such opinions, but if you define away Ottoman colonialism, it clears the way for America-hating and Jew-hating anticolonialism.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010

  • Are we to believe that the anticolonialism of Senghor and Césaire, the combat of Lumumba and then Mandela, the thoughts of Franz Fanon, appealing to Africans to shake off their chains and free themselves from their tyrant -- all that, fifty years later, has been reduced to this pathetic rhetoric on the right to self-determination, itself reduced to the right of tyrants to determine the fate of their people?

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Return to Benghazi Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

  • "But to his son, the elder Obama represented a great and noble cause, the cause of anticolonialism," D'Souza wrote.

    Gibbs: Forbes magazine getting 'more accurate' Scott Wilson 2010

  • But to his son, the elder Obama represented a great and noble cause, the cause of anticolonialism.

    How Obama Thinks 2010

  • I know a great deal about anticolonialism, because I am a native of Mumbai, India.

    How Obama Thinks 2010

  • For a short time, the Americans looked as if they had positioned themselves to take advantage of the prevailing winds of anticolonialism: Eisenhower had punished the European aggressors.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • To most Americans, however, anticolonialism is an unfamiliar idea, so let me explain it.

    How Obama Thinks 2010

  • The Palestinian-American critic Edward Said, who in polemical moments indulged in a Manichaeanism inflamed by the Palestinian cause, was one of those who found in Fanon a link between Marxist totality and Third World anticolonialism.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • The Palestinian-American critic Edward Said, who in polemical moments indulged in a Manichaeanism inflamed by the Palestinian cause, was one of those who found in Fanon a link between Marxist totality and Third World anticolonialism.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

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