European modernity embraces colonized cultures while erasing the colonized people themselves

Evidence

This is a sentiment with much wider reach and resonance, as Simon Gikandi has shown with regard to Modernism, generally, and Picasso in particular. “Culture without the cannibals” serves as the subliminal text for the raceless state. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 839

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the ‘complaints about immodesty’ article’s logic of cultural appropriation and the extracting of aesthetic value while disavowing the people — and connects to the tree-grafting essay’s theme of extracting from the periphery invisibly.