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Article deals mainly with the development of a collaborative methodology between the author and Patsy Cohen and the process of creating Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs.
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'Whiteness' and 'Aboriginality' in Canada and Australia
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Feminist Theory , August vol. 8 no. 2 2007; (p. 187-208) 'We ... begin our conversation with each other and with you by examining our personal relationship to the idea of whiteness in order to reveal some of its complexity in Canada and Australia. 'Whiteness' as an abstraction has proved useful in moving the invisible norm to visibility, but we show who an awareness of 'whiteness' in two locations can be recuperated to re-privilege the already privileged. Aboriginal speakers and writers that theorized 'whiteness', in many cases from outside the academy, in the process 'hybridizing' traditional genres. For many of them, Aboriginality, like whiteness, is a construct that often stands in the way of thinking clearly about where to go next in the fight against racism' (187).
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'Whiteness' and 'Aboriginality' in Canada and Australia
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Feminist Theory , August vol. 8 no. 2 2007; (p. 187-208) 'We ... begin our conversation with each other and with you by examining our personal relationship to the idea of whiteness in order to reveal some of its complexity in Canada and Australia. 'Whiteness' as an abstraction has proved useful in moving the invisible norm to visibility, but we show who an awareness of 'whiteness' in two locations can be recuperated to re-privilege the already privileged. Aboriginal speakers and writers that theorized 'whiteness', in many cases from outside the academy, in the process 'hybridizing' traditional genres. For many of them, Aboriginality, like whiteness, is a construct that often stands in the way of thinking clearly about where to go next in the fight against racism' (187).
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