Exclusion by Design Tracing Rhetorical Continuity through American Exceptionalism and Orientalism

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Publié-e : déc. 19, 2025
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Orientalism, American exceptionalism, rhetoric, Self/Other dichotomy, racial hierarchy

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Anna Aalhus
KPU

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Drawing upon Edward Said's theory of Orientalism, this essay argues that American exceptionalism continues to justify subjugation, displacement, and state violence through the rhetorical and ideological reproduction of colonial binaries and racialized hierarchies of power. 

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Vol. 2 (2025)
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Articles