US Middle East research institutions retained the European Orientalist outlook
Evidence
It is no reduction to say of all this that it retains, in most of its general as well as its detailed functioning, the traditional Orientalist outlook which had been developed in Europe. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 748
Categorization
- XREF: Direct escalation from the book’s earlier chapters on the European Orientalist tradition; carries that scaffolding forward. — connects to: American Oriental studies were founded to emulate European imperial frameworks — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 745; European Orientalism was normalized into a coherent US scholarly consensus; American Orientalism persists fragmentarily but ideologically coherently (+5 more)
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 748
Broader Connections
- American Orientalism persists fragmentarily but ideologically coherently
#expands(0.85) - An institutional network of interests sustains unchanging orientalist dogma
#expands(0.80) - US universities produced Middle East knowledge specifically to serve imperial needs.
#expands(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 139 - US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire.
#expands(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28 - European travelogues about the Middle East resembled Crusade-era mythic returns
#exemplifies(0.70) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 182