Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 15:23:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Kimberly G Hebert <khebert-AT-emerald.tufts.edu>
Subject: Re: Wacko Jacko


Francis--

I agree with all of what you stated here.  As someone also interested in 
"deciphering" a lot of post-colonial lit crit, I would like to know some of 
the sources you've read that support this side of the "hybridity" discussion.



On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Francis N Nesbitt wrote:

> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 13:34:00 -0500 (EST)
> From: Francis N Nesbitt <fnn-AT-oitunix.oit.umass.edu>
> To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: Wacko Jacko
> 
> post-ness liberating?
> we choose our racial and gender identities?
> 
> excuse me!
> 
> do the indios in guatemala choose their identities?
> how about the blacks in the west? did they come up with the terms 
> 'pelo malo' (bad 'black' hair)  "no seas tan indio" (don't be an indio) 
> "esta mejorando la raza" (improving the race) "me estas 
> negreando?" (don't treat me like a negro) "lista negra" "la oveja negra" "tu 
> lado negro" "trabajar como negro para vivir como blanco" (working like a 
> black to live like a white) ???????"
> 
> as to postness/hybridity being liberating, this is exactly the issue i 
> was ridiculing with my analysis of Wacko Jacko. Jacko's desire for 
> whiteness is only a reflection of the millions who straighten their 
> hair, color it blond, use skin lightening creams, etc. it is (excuse me 
> for using a term from cultural studies) an attempt at the  "magical 
> resolution" of their marginalization  
> 
> hybridity with intention? what about "mejorando la raza"? (improving the 
> race) isn't this what mestizaje is all about? to cover up the racialized 
> class inequities that maintain the structures of slavery to date? Why 
> have 'critical' theorists ressurected 19th century theories of 
> hybridity/mestizaje? what does this colonial lazarus promise?  
> 
> njubi
> 
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