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Tiffany, Glad that your post has sparked some di...

2009-09-16T12:05:33.219-07:00

Tiffany,

Glad that your post has sparked some dialogue. First, you are a very good writer and have a clear "voice" - that's great. Your first paragraph made me laugh out loud. I encourage you to keep questioning the "why" of the readings. However, not only is it important to understand how structural, institutional, and historical forces have made the world we

and what voice are we-this NYU SCA predominantly ...

2009-09-15T17:40:03.477-07:00

and what voice are we-this NYU SCA predominantly white class-giving these large populations of people who have been historically ignored in scholarly texts, these people who have been forgotten and ignored, legally and socially repressed? the essays we read this week didn't give any of these populations a voice. sure, Lipsitz described the Mardi Gras Indians and conducted some interviews but

where are you from? how were you raised? and how o...

2009-09-15T17:12:00.654-07:00

where are you from? how were you raised? and how old are you?

the point of classes like this, essays like the on...

2009-09-14T11:59:39.907-07:00

the point of classes like this, essays like the ones we read, is to give voice to large populations of people who have been historically ignored in scholarly texts, people who have been forgotten and ignored, legally and socially repressed, so that we may understand not just the upper class, white, heterosexual, male narrative, but also the stories of the lower class, racialized, queer, female.