Subject: RE: Surface colour and inner identity
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:07:42 -0400


>On the other
hand, the idea of "coconut" is, to my mind, rather amusing. British Indians
/ Pakistanis appear to use it in a slightly derogatory, but essentially
humorous, way.

It's not an "amusing" term in the Pacific since it's a racial slur against
Pacific Islanders. Like all the other labels that have been bandied around
on the list, this one has different meanings in different time/spaces & is
deeply enmeshed & dependent upon multiple histories, nations, class, gender,
speaker, audience etc etc etc. Liz



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