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1 Earlier versions of this paper were written
for The International Journal of Humanities and Peace
(forthcoming) and the National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE) Conference, November, 1996, Chicago, Illinois.
2 See Judith Butler,
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
(New York: Routledge, 1993) which continues her earlier work
on identity and performativity. See also Rebecca Schneider, "See
the Big Show: Spiderwoman Theater Doubling Back," Acting
Out: Feminist Performances, eds. Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993) on the notion
of inappropriate bodies.
3 James A. Banks,
"Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform," Multicultural
Leader (Spring 1988) 3.
4 When talking about
multicultural issues, it become clearer than ever how language
serves to reinforce hierarchies of power. Words like "marginal,"
"minority," and "dominant culture" not only
set up binary oppositions which rarely in reality exist, but
they also replicate hegemonic inequities. I am equally unhappy
with terms like "people of color" and "white people,"
and I use them here with a great deal of self-consciousness as
to their limitations.
5 Mary Louise Pratt,
"Arts of the Contact Zone," Ways of Reading: An
Anthology for Writers, eds. David Bartholomae and Anthony
Petrosky (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1993)
444.
6 Lisa Delpit writes
about the culture of power in "The Silenced Dialogue: Power
and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children," Harvard
Educational Review 58.3 (August 1988): 280-298.
7 Sharyn Lowenstein,
et al, "Re-envisioning the Journal: Writing the Self into
Community." Pedagogy in the Age of Politics: Writing
and Reading (in) the Academy, eds. Patricia A. Sullivan and
Donna J. Qualley (Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English,
1994) 142, 151.
8 Alison M. Jaggar
and Paula S. Rothenberg. Feminist Frameworks: Alternative
Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between Women and Men
(New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993) 75.
9 See Adrienne Rich,
"Notes toward a Politics of Location" (1984), Blood,
Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1984, (New York: W.
W. Norton & Company, 1986) 210-31 and, for a critical response
to that essay, Caren Kaplan, "The Politics of Location as
Transnational Feminist Critical Practice," Scattered
Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices,
eds. Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan (Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1994) 137-52.
10 See Peggy McIntosh's
"White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account
of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies,"
Race, Class, Gender: An Anthology, eds. Margaret L. Andersen
and Patricia Hill Collins (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing
Company, 1995) 76-87. A good follow-up activity for students
after reading this is to list their own privileges based on one
or multiple locations they inhabit.
11 Nicole Hollander,
The Whole Enchilada (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986).
Peggy Lee, "I'm a Woman," Peggy
Lee All-Time Greatest Hits, Volume 1, Publication # D277379
(Burbank, CA: Curb Records, 1990).
12 Sojourner Truth,
"Ain't I a Woman?" The Norton Anthology of Literature
by Women, eds. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (New York:
W. W. Norton & Company, 1985) 253.
13 Julia Alvarez,
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (New York: Plume,
1992). Harriet E. Wilson, Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life
of a Free Black (New York: Vintage Books, 1983).
14 Marge Piercy,
Woman on the Edge of Time (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1976).
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