Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:51:20 -0700
Subject: Re: Black&Brown versus White criticism - a caricature


Some people kiss and tell and others caricature and tell......
Some people do it in private and others need an audience..
probably "cunning linguists" need a textual audience....


but the issue of "style" is very interesting....
style without substance is always the fate of the "other" ....expectation 
states theory suggests that even when a "white" person just lurks near a 
colored person who is making a major contribution of some sort...there is a 
very high likelihood of the attribution of the achievement to the 
non-colored....

what a power trip it must be constructing and de-constructing "others" into 
and out of "english"...translating the colonizer and the colonized as Memmi 
would say....controlling both parts of the conversation....





At 11:46 AM 08/03/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Black&Brown versus White Criticism - a caricature of how others see you in
>a debate involving gauntlets and hydrophobia. A question of style?
>
>***
>
>Black&Brown Criticism  (with the odd exception) -
>
>Dear Mr Dickens, being white as you keep pointing out, maybe you haven't
>considered...
>Dear Mr Dickens, don't you think you may be living just a bit too much in
>your own rather comfortable little world...
>Dear Mr Dickens, I'm afraid what you say is quite contradictory and doesn't
>hold water...
>Dear Mr Dickens, the problems in our part of the world are particularly
>tricky, and I don't honestly think you've really grasped the essence...
>Dear Mr Dickens, I simply can't agree with what you say, since you couldn't
>actually have any genuine experience of...
>
>White Criticism - (with the odd exception) -
>
>Eric! I am incensed, outraged, utterly shocked and devastated by your
>blatantly racist garbage...
>Eric! How dare you utter such hegemonic drivel! The very fact you take up
>this subject proves beyond a shadow of doubt that...
>Eric! If I had my way, cunning linguists like yourself would be censored out
>of this and every other list. But, getting back to the subject of the
>postprandial theory of syntactic theme narrative...
>Eric! Flabbergasting! People like you make Alfred Rosenberg and Count
>Gobineau look like...
>Eric! We ask the questions!!! How can a tediously reactionary British
>translator like you...
>
>***
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Eric Dickens
>
>
>
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