Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination

Evidence

Said’s Orientalism is not a book about the Orient per se. It is a book that analyzes Western discourse about the Orient, including Islam and Arab peoples, and how this discourse relates to Western domination over the Orient in light of the colonial projects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives a precise orientation of what Orientalism-as-Said’s-project actually claims: discourse analysis tied to colonial power, not a study of the Orient itself.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in the hinge where religious rivalry becomes race/colonial thinking; matches Foucault’s discourse-power lineage. — connects to: Western definitions of Africans served domination rather than understanding.; Colonial interests saturated nearly all Western texts on the Orient — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 207; Orientalist writings assumed the Orient was inferior and childlike — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206 (+29 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial interests saturated nearly all Western texts on the Orient #corroborates (0.90) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 207
• Scholars have treated colonial sentiment as ornament rather than substance of rule #corroborates (0.70)
• Muslim women were pornographically depicted to commodity the Orient #exemplifies (0.70)
• Orientalist writings assumed the Orient was inferior and childlike #expands (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206
• Colonial knowledge production was driven by uncertainty, not clarity #complicates (0.60)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize #expands (0.50)