Re: Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist Diversion from Anti-racism/anti-imperialism

[Michael Hoover]

> "eurocentrism" needs
> to be retired from our vocabulary, since it acts only to deflect
> attention from the ills it pretends to name.
> Carrol

Term 'eurocentrism' is problematic although conception that eurocentrism 
is colonizer's model of world (as jim blaut, no postmodernist, calls it)
seesm generally agreeable.  Term can, however, flatten complexity of 
european culture and history that includes peripheral regions, social 
classes, marginalized and stigmatized peoples.  Simplistic inversion 
positing europe as 'evil' and turning colonialist model on its head 
remains eurocentric since focus remains on Europe (and lets third 
world elites off hook).      Michael Hoover