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Out there : marginalization and contemporary cultures

Russell Ferguson (Editor), Martha Gever (Editor), T. Minh-Ha Trinh (Editor), Cornel West (Editor), Marcia Tucker, Félix González-Torres (Compiler)
This text addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It is an anthology that juxtaposes diverse points of view on issues of gender, race, sexual preference and class
Print Book, English, 1990
The New Museum of Contemporary Art ; The MIT Press, New York, New York, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990
History
446 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
9780262061322, 9780262560641, 0262061325, 026256064X
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The new cultural politics of difference / Cornel West
Modernism, postmodernism, and the problem of the visual in Afro-American culture / Michele Wallace
The straight mind / Monique Wittig
What is a minor literature? / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
The other question : difference, discrimination, and the discourse of colonialism / Homi K. Bhabha
Missionary positions : AIDS, Africa, and race / Simon Watney
Uneven development : public art in New York City / Rosalyn Deutsche
Please wait by the coatroom / John Yau
On collecting art and culture / James Clifford
The names we give ourselves / Martha Gever
How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa
Repetition as a figure of Black culture / James A. Snead
Mourning and militancy / Douglas Crimp
Black hair/style politics / Kobena Mercer
Complexion / Richard Rodriguez
Age, race, class, and sex : women redefining difference / Audre Lorde
Coming to terms / Richard Dyer
The site of memory / Toni Morrison
Cotton and iron / Trinh T. Minh-ha
Talking back / bell hooks
Marginality as site of resistance
Castration or decapitation? / Hélène Cixous
Reflections on exile / Edward Said
Ons stel nie belang nie/we are not interested in speaking apartheid / Linda Peckham
Explanation and culture : marginalia / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Thoughts on nomadic aesthetics and Black independent cinema : traces of a journey / Teshome H. Gabriel
Socioacupuncture : mythic reversals and the striptease in four scenes / Gerald Vizenor