Huh? I'm not even sure how this relates?
When people in minority groups are expected to only focus on the art, culture, issues etc of that group. Shakespeare must be rejected etc
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When people are called coconuts or coons or native informants for holding humanist or liberal values as if they can't belong to them too.
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As if whole world of ideas & art and potential relationships based on shared experiences rather than culturally specific ones are a betrayal
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Some people might see it as a betrayal. My view is that assimilation can make people blind of their own group-based oppression.
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E.g. women of color who have learned to explain their career failures in terms of not-misogyny and not-racism.
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Surely, what's important is whether it *is* misogyny and racism. Shouldn't be a political requirement to think it is or isn't.
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Agreed. But there is pressure from the dominant, universalist majority to disregard such explanations!
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I think this is simplistic. I think a lot of the resistance to seeing racism & sexism etc comes from people seeing it everywhere.
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The terms are losing power because of overuse & misuse. If everything is sexism and racism, nothing is.
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Ok, so… _that_ I would find a bit odd. Not wrong, but also not necessary.
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One black man in my postgrad Shakespeare module. Always expected to look at Shakespeare in terms of race. That's a problem.
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how did he handled Otello?
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He was very quiet in that seminar. Wrote about Much Ado about Nothing.
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