'Identity Politics'

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Thu Sep 16 18:23:22 PDT 1999


I think at one time the phrase was 'oppressed group?'...Steve

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Catherine Driscoll wrote:


> Yoshie is quite right about the pragmatic need for identity politics.
>
> And Charles...
>
> >By the way, women are the majority , not a minority.
>
> There is an argument that 'minority' is not about numbers but about a
> position in relation to a privileged norm or standard. But it's one of
> those dark post-structuralist things, so perhaps I should discuss it here.
>
> Catherine
>



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