From: "kent strock" <sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: natural academic
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:18:17 PST


What actions or statements has Oprah made that challenges anything that is 
racist?  Was she with Jesse Jackson when he protested and made public the 
treatment of the students outside chicago who where kicked out of school for 
2 years?  If she has reproduced anything its talk show mumbo jumbo and 
capitalist structures of accumulation.  How does her accumulation challenge 
anything?
kent strock


>From: Ania Lian <ania-AT-lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
>Reply-To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: natural academic
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:33:44 +1000 (EST)
>
>On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Tobin Nellhaus wrote:
>
> > Thus a "natural
> > academic" is one who fits into academia and fulfills its demands with 
>great
> > ease, comfort and ability; in contrast, some other people frequently 
>feel
> > they're a bad fit, and that being in an academic environment is a 
>constant
> > struggle with and against oneself.
>
>Natural academic is hence what the academia legitimates as its nature.
>Needless to say, they may well be wrong:-) However, yet again the concept
>of being something is about division and privileging the members of
>certain modes of activity (I do not want to use the word field) rather
>than about seeing one's activities as part and parcel of everything else
>that people do. Does a teaching position at university make us more
>academic, i.e.  more able to think critically, than the bloke who on Wall
>Street makes 6 figures daily?
>
>Is Oprah Winfrey is in a position to disrupt racist structures in the
>U.S.? I do not know what that position would be but she certainly proves
>to have what coloured people are supposed to be unable to have or do. And
>in her right, she puts herself in a position of conflict with those who
>want to deprive her from what she makes, does, in a word: is.
>
>Ania Lian
>
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