Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 16:44 EDT
From: Sangeeta_RAY-AT-umail.umd.edu (sr42)
Subject: white male guru; addresses


A quick question tothe the person (I am sorry I did not save the message) as
to the negative status of Rushdie and Spivak since they "worship" white male
gurus such as Lacan and Derrida--Are the latter incorrect because they are
white and male or because they write "gibberish" (not my opinion) or because
they can reductively be termeds poststructuralist. Is Marx not a "white amle
guru"--is he exempt because he produced treatises on class etc. If so, and
maybe there are other reasons which I would love to know, is every white
male who talks about class seriously warrant worship no matter what his
other prejudices. Would the same hold true for non-white men as well. Is
there a list of men that one should and should not worship. Are white women
who talk about class like Christine Delphy the French feminist socialist
included in this good list or does she occupy a space in the bad list.

Whose Where List

Abdul JanMohammed as far as Ii know was not recently fired fromB berkeley.
earlier he had a hard time with tenure, got it and then left for Minnesota
and then came back to Berkeley, I think. Anyway he is now at UC Irvine. And
I don't think he was ever editor of CI. That has always been Tom Mitchell's
baby.

Lata Mani is at UC Davis

Benita Parry is an independent scholar in England. She never had any univ.
affiliation.

Is there anybody I am missing.


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