Subject: RE: Race
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:09:29 -0500


David Roediger, a labor historian, has written several excellent books
regarding race.  

"Race" has been a question bandied about by social scientists for
eons(it seems!)  

To be continued. . . .

Aiko Joshi

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>Subject:	Re: Race
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>cyberdiva wrote:
>> 
>> Haraway on Race -
>> (comments?)
>> 
>> "Race is a fracturing trauma in the body politic of the nation - and in
>> the mortal bodies of its people. Race kills, liberally and unequally; and
>> race privileges, unspeakably and abundantly. Like nature, race has much to
>> answer for; and the tab is still running for both categories. Race, like
>> nature, is at hte heart of stories about the origins and purposes of the
>> nation. Race, at once an uncanny unreality and an inescapable presence,
>> frightens me; and I am not alone in this paralyzing historical pathology of
>> body and soul. Like nature, race is the kind of category about which no one
>> is neutral, no one unscatherd, no one sure of their ground, if there is a
>> ground. Race is a peculiar kind of object of knowledge and practice."
>> 
>> - pg.213 - "Modest_Witness-AT-Second_Millenium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse"
>> 
>> (after FemaleMan, there's a copyright sign and after OncoMouse there's TM)
>> 
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>
>The human capacity to create hierarchies (lowly to powerful) and
>differences is what kills...I don't agree that "race" kills...people of
>the *same* races are killing one another even as we "speak":  witness
>all the major conflicts in the world having nothing to do with "race,"
>but "religion."
>
>-Manjusree