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Postmodern Blackness

“Postmodernist discourses are often exclusionary even as they call attention to… the experience of ‘difference and ‘Otherness’ to provide oppositional political meaning, legitimacy, and immediacy” (2478). Postmodern Blackness. “As a discursive practice it [Master

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Postmodern Blackness

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  1. “Postmodernist discourses are often exclusionary even as they call attention to… the experience of ‘difference and ‘Otherness’ to provide oppositional political meaning, legitimacy, and immediacy” (2478). Postmodern Blackness

  2. “As a discursive practice it [Master Narratives] is dominated primarily by the voice of white male intellectuals and/or academic elites who speak to and about one another with coded familiarity” (2478).

  3. “… many of these voices were silenced by a repressive state; others became inarticulate” (2479) “[T]here is seldom any mention of black experience or writing by black people in this work, specially black women” (2479). “There are no references to works by black women” (2479).

  4. “[T]he plight of underclass people of color… [f]or African-Americans our collective condition has been and is characterized by continued displacement, profound alienation, and despair” (2481).

  5. Essential Blackness • “We [black people] have too long had imposed upon us form both the outside and the inside a narrow, constricting notion of blackness” (2482).

  6. “Such a critique [of essentialism] allows us to affirm multiple black identities, varied black experience. It also challenges colonial imperialist paradigms of black identity which represent blackness one-dimensionally in ways that reinforce and sustain white supremacy” (2482).

  7. “When this diversity [of multiple experiences of black identity] is ignored, it is easy to see black folks as falling into two categories: nationalist or assimilationist, black-identified or white- identified” (2483).

  8. “[T]o critique essentialism while emphasizing the significance of ‘the authority of experience.’ There is a radical difference between… a black ‘essence’ and... black identity… constituted in the experience of exile and struggle” (2483).

  9. “To change the exclusionary practice of postmodern critical discourse… entails black intellectual participation in the discourse” (2483). • “knowledge can be disseminated and shared on a number of fronts” (2484).

  10. “On the terrain of culture, one can participate in critical dialogue with the uneducated poor, the black underclass who are thinking about aesthetics” (2484).

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