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From: ksumner-AT-bosshog.arts.uwo.ca
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:20:34 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Pedantic Postcolonial Point



>Someone noted, in talking about illegal immigration:
>>>It also seems likely to me that someone from say, England, will not be
>asked to show papers versus a Mexican.<<
>
>I read into this statement that "someone from England" is white, i.e. it is
>the 'whiteness' that is being considered rather than place of origin.

I think that this is a really interesting point, suggesting just how
invisible whiteness as a racial identity continues to be even in a poco
context.  It's so invisible that it's not even stated - just assumed, and
signified by "england."

karen

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Karen Sumner
Department of English
University College
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
N6A 3K7

ksumner-AT-bosshog.arts.uwo.ca

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