>Doug:
>> >Hmm, but if a racial category was invented in the process of
>> >oppression, then how is accepting that category negating it? Looks to
>> >me more like a perverse reinforcement. The negation would be to
>> >reject racial categorization altogether.
>
>Rob Schaap:
>> That's you, Foucault, and me in perfect agreement. Had to happen some
>> time, I s'pose.
>
>Desirable / positive / constructive things are constructed by
>the oppressed in order to deal with their oppression some of
>which are built ironically using the very structure of the
>oppression. Maybe more often than not. So then getting rid
>of it is not all that simple.
Of course not. Who said it is? But the simple solution - to accept conventional categories and just reverse their signs - isn't much of a solution, really.
Doug