File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2000/postcolonial.0007, message 178


Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:49:33 +1000
Subject: Re: White mens problems 


so many Pathans and Kashmiris are white too as far as their epidermis is
concerned but i think we should go beyond this epidermalisation of "human"
culture.

saeed urrehman
australian national univesity


At 02:12 PM 7/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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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