“... by Black nationalism and the Black Arts Movement, found nothing in Wheatley’s poetry but ‘self-hatred’ and a refusal to engage with the ‘liberation of the Black man’. Amiri Baraka said Wheatley’s ‘pleasant imitations of 18th-century English poetry are … ludicrous departures from the huge Black voices that splintered southern nights with ...”

“... When does ‘woke’ move from its original meaning of ‘alert to racism’ and turn into self-righteous hectoring? When should an anti-abortion campaigner be entitled to carry a placard outside an abortion clinic, or, come to that, when should a women’s-right-to-chooser be allowed to stake out the home of an anti-abortion campaigner? There is a ...”

“... figures and public events – is almost unheard of. When the narrator assesses another woman’s self-presentation – ‘dressed all in black, black sweater and black trousers and black boots’ – she isn’t exactly vague but certainly generic. Doesn’t an apparently featureless style of this sort crackle with nuances of cut and material?Listing ...”

“... In 1908, shortly before he joined the Dutch Theosophical Society, he sketched a series of self-portraits in which his eyes, enlarged and penetrating, looming right up against the picture plane, seem points of connection between the soul and material body. But his spiritualism also bled into his still lifes and landscapes in ways that were connected to ...”

“... of an insurgent party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Celebrity sportsman turned statesman, Khan self-consciously positioned himself as anti-elite. True, he attended Aitchison College, the Lahore school that educates Pakistan’s high society, but he claimed he had felt like an outsider there. Khan founded the PTI in 1996, though for many years the party was ...”

“... anioto trial in 1920, the colonial administration hanged several of the accused.The museum’s self-examination predates its five-year redesign. On the eve of the millennium, two books about the imperial past caused a stir in Belgium: Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost (1998) and Ludo De Witte’s L’Assassinat de Lumumba (1999). They were met ...”

“... councils emerged from the shop floor. Gramsci saw in these spontaneous expressions of proletarian self-awareness the beginnings of a new state and a new order and so the young socialists called the paper which they founded in 1919 L’Ordine Nuovo, the New Order. From the beginning the paper stood out from its contemporaries by the freshness and originality ...”

“... by the BBC at ten this evening. The papers, which have had a preview, are full of Leeson’s self-justifications, but nobody seems to question the propriety of broadcasting such an interview in the first place; and like so many of the interviews Frost is involved with it’s a pretty seedy affair. Not that Frost isn’t highly respectable but his rise as ...”

“... Seen in this light, and despite Roth’s difficult relations with his own Jewishness, all of his self-defeating heroes, even the gentiles, are ultimately Jewish. This profoundly contradictory vision is most powerfully figured in the movement between centre and rim, between Vienna and the border. The rigid Baron Taittinger is literally broken up by the ...”

“... In particular, he seizes on Groys’s comparison of Socialist Realism with Surrealism: This ‘self-staging’ of the avant-garde demiurge is also characteristic of other artistic currents of the Thirties and Forties, particularly Surrealism, with which, as with the art of Nazi Germany, Socialist Realism has a great deal in common. All that distinguishes ...”

“... threats not just to established and relatively comfortable working patterns, but to traditions of self-reliance and control of work: the Boulting Brothers’ 1959 comedy I’m All Right Jack touches on this. The most interesting essay in the book, based on surveys of workers’ attitudes, is by the sociologist Mike Savage: interesting in part because it ...”

“... nurtured in Leeds or Bradford or Manchester has some sense of being a son or daughter of a solid self-confident city and that when, in due course, one went away as I did to university, the sense of being still part of the city, like it or not, is in one’s baggage.And, of course, for me and most of my schoolfellows, everything we have in the way of ...”

“... the new worries brought by Nazi oppression slipped in beside the old worries of a man for whom self-doubt, hypochondria, pessimism and anxiety were lifelong constants. When the Nazi Government in one of its first acts expelled Jews from public employment, a category which included almost every academic post in Germany, Klemperer was considered one of the ...”

“... Haiti had few friends. Virtually all the world’s powers sided with France against the self-proclaimed Black Republic, which declared itself a haven not only for runaway slaves but also for indigenous people from the rest of the Americas (the true natives of Haiti had succumbed to infectious disease and Spanish slavery well before the arrival of ...”

“... will have to keep in touch with this host which sprang out of the Ukrainian earth to rescue their self-respect – and his candidature. This means that thousands of his supporters must swallow their dislike of ‘politicians’ and enter politics, at the local and the national level. By himself, he will not be able to ‘complete 1991’ (make Ukrainian ...”