White savior
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The term white savior is a critical description of a white person depicted as liberating, rescuing or uplifting non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which peopl
Writer Teju Cole, who coined the term white savior industrial complex
Teju Cole
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Teju Cole is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief; a novel, Open City; an essay collection, Known and Strange Things;
White savior
…from 1899. The term has been associated with Africa, and certain characters in film and television have been critiqued as white savior figures. Writer Teju Cole combined the term with "industrial complex" (derived from military–industrial complex and similarly applied elsewhere) to coin "White Savior Industrial…
Cole in 2013