ABSTRACT
A mass movement exercising nonviolence is an object lesson in power under discipline, a demonstration to the White community that if such a movement attained a degree of strength, it would use its power creatively and not vengefully. The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals. “Between Colonizer and Colonized” represents the early thinking of social theorists in the late-colonial world: The text’s systematic critique of colonialism expresses the distinctive view of the colonial subject in the colonialist’s language. This stated belief in the existence of a national culture is in fact a burning, desperate return to anything. In order to secure his salvation, in order to escape the supremacy of white culture the colonized intellectual feels the need to return to his unknown roots and lose himself, come what may, among his barbaric people.
