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“Indeed, as some historians observe, the changing relationships of readers to text over time can be seen as one index of the history of thought.”

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Book:Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Source: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“European women's "sexual fear" appears to arise in special circumstances of unequal power structures at times of particular political pressure: when the dominant power group perceives itself as threatened and vulnerable. Protecting the virtue of white women was the pretext for instituting draconian measures against indigenous populations [...] the actual level of rape and sexual assault bore no relation to the hysteria that the subject aroused.”

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Book:Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

Source: Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

“Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities have maintained a sustained myopia toward white terror.”

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Book:Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Source: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

“Conceptual historians of various stripes asked after the origins of ideas, but they sought them by tracing the changing meanings of words across different socio-historical contexts. My concern, by contrast, is with the practical origins of ideas: with the ways in which the ideas we live by can be shown to be rooted in practical needs and concerns generated by certain facts about us and our situation.”

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Book:The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering

Source: The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering