Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:29:27 -0400
Subject: Re: White mens problems 
From: "Lisa Anne McNee" <lm23-AT-qsilver.queensu.ca>


Terry, 
I agree with your comments regarding privileges, especially the remarks
concerning white privilege. (I am white with some Native American heritage.)
However, I don't think that I was denying participation in U.S. hegemony--I
can hardly do that, as I was educated in the U.S. Your latest posting seems
more nuanced than the earlier ones, though, for in it you allow for the
possibility of resistance. We are not simply the sum of our multiple
identities, many of which are not of our choosing. Identity is much more
elusive than that, I believe, and is made up of choices--such as the choice
to resist hegemony (as you suggest in this latest posting). Lisa

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>From: terry goldie <tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca>
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: White mens problems 
>Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2000, 2:12 PM
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>I'm a white guy. I've been a white guy for fifty years. I am also gay and 
>a feminist and have been involved in anti-racist activism of various
>sorts for thirty years. But I was a white guy yesterday and I'll be a
>white guy tomorrow. Anyone who is uncomfortable as part of a hegemonic
>group should work against it but should not deny participation in that
>group and should acknowledge the privileges gained by participating in
>that group.
>terry
>
>Terry Goldie
>English Department
>York University
>North York, Ontario
>Canada
>M3J 1P3
>voice: 416-604-3670
>fax: 416-736-5412
>email: tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca
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