"One of the fundamental ethical questions/problems/crises for the West: the status of difference and the status of the other. It's as though in order to come to any recognition of common humanity, the other must be assimilated, meaning in this case, utterly displaced and effaced: "Only if I can see myself in that position can I understand the crisis of that position." That is the logic of the moral and political discourses we see everyday - the need for the innocent black subject to be victimized by a racist state in order to see the racism of the racist state. You have to be exemplary in your goodness.…"
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Educators from the United StatesWomen authors from the United States20th-century African-American women21st-century African-American women
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On the status of the “other” in “THE POSITION OF THE UNTHOUGHT” in Qui Parle (Spring/Summer 2003)
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