From: NADEEM OMAR <AJXNOT-AT-ccn4.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
Date:          Sat, 13 Jul 1996 10:46:48 GMT0BST
Subject:       unnamed


Picking on:

    "There is, for instance, a problematic logic of substitution in 
    many academic conferences whereby  people of colour from the US 
    and third word disapora are assumed to occupy identical locations 
    and to be interchnageable. This posits an equivalence which must 
    be resisted, eliding as it does differences as in the 
    relationships, both  historically and in the present, between 
    different third world  groups and US power structures."
    (LATA MANI,??) 

In want of better formulation, I ask, 
 
Is this problematic "substitution" corresponds to the body of 
scholary works in the "post-colonial studies"?

Does the "equivalence" productively generates tropes of blindness 
consistent with the "post-colonial theory"?

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