Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:06:09 +0100 (BST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?piers=20smith?= <piersmsmith-AT-yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: identity politics


in the early days of this list, someone once wrote
'identity politics suck.' i've never been the same
since :)
piers smith
 
 --- Priti Joshi <pjoshi-AT-rohan.sdsu.edu> wrote: > 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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> Priti Joshi
> Dept of English & Comparative Literature
> San Diego State University
> 5500 Campanile Drive
> San Diego, CA 92182-8140
> Ph: (619) 594-5170
> e-mail: pjoshi-AT-rohan.sdsu.edu
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