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48. Cultural universalism is seen as an ideology that the dominant groups and classes in the
modern world system use to look at the world mainly from their own cultural per-
spective and to control economic, cultural, and political resources of the dominated
groups and classes.It assists in creating and socializing a global collaborative class by sub-
ordinating or destroying multicultures in the name of science, technology, progress, and
civilization (see Wallerstein,op.cit.);Edward Said,Orientalism; Robert J.C.Young, Colo-
nial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race.
49. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World-Economy (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1979), p. 234.
50. See Basil Davidson,“On Revolutionary Nationalism:The Legacy of Cabral,” Race and
Class, vol. 27, no. 3, (Winter 1986), pp. 21–45; Joane Nagel,“Ethnic Nationalism: Poli-
tics, Ideology, and the World Order,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology vol. 34,
no. 1–2 (1993), pp. 103–112.
51. For details regarding the Oromo case, see Jalata, Oromia and Ethiopia, pp. 83–114,
177–202.
52. See William I. Robinson,“Global Capitalism and the Oromo Liberation Struggle:The-
oretical Notes on U.S.Policy Towards the Ethiopian Empire,”The Journal of Oromo Stud-
ies, vol. 4, no. 1–2, pp. 1–46;Tecola W. Hagos, Democratization? Ethiopia (1991–1994):A
Personal View (Cambridge, Mass.: Khepera Publishers, 1995).
53. See William I. Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention and Hege-
mony (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Asafa Jalata,“Oromo National-
ism in the New Global Context,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, vol. 4, no. 1–2 (July
1997), pp. 83–114.
54. See Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism (London:Verso, 1983); Robert A. Hut-
tenback, Racism and Empire:White Settlers and Colored Immigrants in the British Self-Gov-
erning Colonies 1830–1910 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976); David R.
Roediger,The Wages of Whiteness:Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Lon-
don:Verso, 1991).
55. Anthony Smith, Nationalism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1979),
p. 1.
56. Gurutz J. Bereciartu, Decline of the National State, p. 1.
57. Ibid., p. 127.
58. See David R. Roediger, op. cit.
59. See Asafa Jalata,“African American Nationalism, Development, and Afrocentricity: Im-
plications for the Twenty-First Century,” in Molefi Kete Asante and Afrocentricity: In Praise
and in Criticism, ed. Dhyana Ziegler (Nashville, Tenn.: James C. Winston, 1995), pp.
153–174; S. D. McLemore, Racial and Ethnic Relations in America (Boston: Allyn and
Bacon, 1991).
60. John L. Comaroff and Paul C. Stern,“New Perspectives on Nationalisms and War,” in
Perspectives on Nationalism and War, ed. by John L. Comaroff and Paul C. Stern (Amster-
dam: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1995), p. 1.
61. See Anthony Smith, National Identity (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1991).
62. This is one of the themes of my article titled,“Oromo Nationalism in the New Global
Context,” The Journal of Oromo Studies. My book Oromia and Ethiopia also takes these
themes.
63. John Breuilly, op. cit. p. 131.
64. See I.Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism, p. 102.
65. Gloria Marshall,“Racial Classifications: Popular and Scientific,” in The “Racial” Economy
of Science:Toward a Democratic Future, ed. by Sandra Harding (Bloomington:Indiana Uni-
versity Press, 1993), p. 125.
66. See Robert J. C.Young, Colonial Desire.