This is the site where the article about Bourdieu I mentioned yesterday can be found:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990503/shusterman
posted by odile at 8:38 AM
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990503/shusterman
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Okay, Jane and Odile, here is a point where I am putting my neck out there and take a risk. Reading Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a 1st year teahcer is what inspired me to pursue a Ph.D. My experiences of living in poverty and witnessing all sorts of oppression and exploitation made it seem as if Freire was speaking to me personally. While I was uncomfortable with the continued reference to men I passed it off as Freire's reference to the human race. I know my position is related to my maleness but I wonder how much of Freire's 'men' was sexist and how much was a poor choice of words. I appears from his later writings and from hooks' comments that Freire worked hard at addressing these problems in his writings as time moved on.
In anticipation of where Robero might sit (Critical Race Theory) does the lack of explicit race analysists by critical theorists make them racists? I don't think so - even though some Critical Race Theorists do.
Critical Theorists begin with Marx and move forward from there. Their analyses eminate from a materialist position. Because Critical Race Theorists, Feminists, and Queer Theorists may not explicitly analyse labor class issues does not make them capitalists. Each comes from a different perspective. If Freire chose to ignore feminist critiques I would be more inclined to call him a sexist rather than calling him to task for explaining the situation in a sexist manner.
6:12 PM
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