n: imperialist nostalgia

def: “nostalgia, often found under imperialism, where people mourn the passing of what they themselves have transformed,” "a process of yearning for what one has destroyed that is a form of mystification." - Renato Rosaldo, Culture and Truth

bell hooks expounds: "The desire to make contact with those bodies deemed Other, with no apparent will to dominate, assuages the guilt of the past, even takes the form of a defiant gesture where one denies accountability and historical connection. Most importantly, it establishes a contemporary narrative where the suffering imposed by structures of domination on those designated Other is deflected by an emphasis on seduction and longing where the desire is not to make the Other over in one's image but to become the Other." - bell hooks, "Eating the Other," in Black Looks: Race and Representation, p. 25

see: Avatar, American Apparel's Afrika prints, hipster appropriation of Indigenous clothing