File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2003/postcolonial.0304, message 64


From: Juliana Abbenyi <jabbenyi-AT-ocean.otr.usm.edu>
Date: Tue,  8 Apr 2003 15:41:50 -0500
Subject: Re: identity politics


Joe,
For the concept of identity politics see:
The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement." It's reprinted in 
_This Bridge Called My Back_ ed. Moraga & Anzaldua.
Juliana M.N. Abbenyi
 
Quoting Priti Joshi <pjoshi-AT-rohan.sdsu.edu>:

> 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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