ehrenreich on biology

[Rakesh Bhandari]

> social theory. Ann Stoler, an anthropologist, historian and scholar of
> Foucault at the University of Michigan, agrees. By failing to take our
> innate cognitive tendencies seriously, she writes, social constructionists
> may be dodging the "uncomfortable question" as to whether oppressive
> ideologies like racism and sexism "acquire the weight...they do...because
> of the ways in which they feed off and build upon [universal] categories of
> the mind." 

My memory is not as bad it may seem. Stoler must have in mind here not her
own work (most recently critique of Foucault's silences vis a vis
colonialism) but that of her husband (i believe) Lawrence Hirschfeld whose
work is indeed controversial.  

yrs, rakesh