File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2003/postcolonial.0304, message 58


Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:01:57 -0700
From: Priti Joshi <pjoshi-AT-rohan.sdsu.edu>
Subject: Re: identity politics


Joe,

I must say I've heard such statements ("Where does Identity politics get 
you...."), said with withering scorn, uttered well before 9/11.  Indeed, I 
think I first heard it in a Women's Studies or Feminist gathering, and 
would date it back to the mid-90s.

Priti.


At 09:28 PM 4/7/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Can anyone out there tell me where the term "identity politics" was first
>used? I imagine that it has a discursive career very similar to the term
>"ethnophilosophy" which is a pejorative term (invoked by Hountoundji) and
>other African philosophers against those who believe culture is philosophy
>(I'm being reductive here for the sake of email).  In the wake of 9/11 the
>term has taken on a certain pungency and I've heard one too many presenters
>(who understand themselves to be progressive and to be inhabiting a host of
>post- discourses) say something like: "Where does identity politics take
>you....9/11"
>
>Joseph N Clarke
>Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures
>in English
>The University of Pennsylvania
>English Department, Bennett Hall 119
>3340 Walnut Street
>Philadelphia PA 19104-6273  USA
>clarkejnc-AT-aol.com
>
>
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San Diego State University
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Ph: (619) 594-5170
e-mail: pjoshi-AT-rohan.sdsu.edu
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