tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post8808688261027712091..comments2024-02-07T03:12:59.031-05:00Comments on Blogenspiel: Not about teachingAnother Damned Medievalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-58146041065517422552009-11-09T16:56:16.012-05:002009-11-09T16:56:16.012-05:00Joan Scott recently published an excellent book ca...Joan Scott recently published an excellent book called The Politics of the Veil, on French republicanism and its fundamental inability (at a philosophical level) to full assimilate certain 'others' into the French concept of 'citizenship'. In her case, she was talking about French people of North African descent who are still considered 'immigrants' in some way even if they are 3rd or 4th generation French. It seems that some of the same philosophical issues may be at the heart of these contradictions in US culture, where people can be technically and legally citizens and even US-born, but are still 'other'.Bavardesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10737120234578385755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-12745461250035693832009-11-07T11:48:52.064-05:002009-11-07T11:48:52.064-05:00It is absolutely based on skin color. I'm an i...It is absolutely based on skin color. I'm an immigrant to the US; when people bitch about "those immigrants" I say, "I'm an immigrant." The response is invariably, "I didn't mean you." To me, it's a culturally-permissible cover for racism.Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14851524413793098615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-32720548939902389232009-11-07T11:19:23.211-05:002009-11-07T11:19:23.211-05:00We are a naturally clannish animal: defining in-gr...We are a naturally clannish animal: defining in-group/out-group is one of the first things we do, it seems. What makes the US interesting is the way we've complicated the process....Ahistoricalityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04004964192885891003noreply@blogger.com