By Himani Bannerji
Himani Bannerji transforms the theorizing of race, gender and sophistication in those essays illuminating the politics of differenceas they impact non-white girls within the post-colonial international.
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And those feminists who do see us or that racism is an issue very often deal with it in the spirit of Christian humanism, on the ground of morality and doing good, or in the spirit of bourgeois democracy, which "includes" or adds on representatives from the "minority" communities. The fact of the matter is that it is almost impossible for European societies as they are to eliminate racism in a thoroughgoing way. Racism is not simply a set of attitudes and practices that they level towards us, their socially constructed "other," but it is the very principle of self-definition of European/Western societies.
This is what racism or sexist/heterosexist racism can theoretically produce. Any class politics which denies this and cannot see itself in this light betrays itself. Socialism then ceases to be a social politics. In this light, for reasons of personal empowerment, cultural projects with a political nuance — such as Black History month, for example, or heritage language training — are precious to us. If these simple assertions or acts of representation threaten white people it is their own task to think through why they feel 38 THINKING THROUGH so.
I grade and therefore am a gatekeeper of an institution which only marginally tolerates people like us in scarcity rather than in plenty. What I speak, even when not addressing gender, race and class, does not easily produce suspension of disbelief. Working in a course on "Male-Female Relations" which I co-designed and co-taught for six years with a colleague — who is male, white, older, taller, bigger, and a full-time faculty — I saw the specificity of student response towards me, where I had continuously to work against my subordination.