Tuesday, September 29, 2009
88
Good Asian Number. Eight Hundred more to go.
Today in transnational literature, I made a comment that the construction of identity occurs when there is a challenge. A person can only identify in opposition to the normative. Then, a white male kid announced he has nothing to identify with, so what is he?
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azn pride.
The white kid is white, but because of the white hegemony, his privilege allows his identity to become normalized, and thus invisible.
The white kid is inhuman. His human identity goes beyond our own, because his privilege casts himself on an entirely different spectrum.
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