tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695251485921322505.post5369262785221793014..comments2023-10-23T10:18:11.959-04:00Comments on it's her factory: Thoughts on SPEP 2012 Part 2robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897759212487269563noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695251485921322505.post-62240191480928705702012-11-30T10:14:05.207-05:002012-11-30T10:14:05.207-05:00Hi Falguni: Thanks so much for your comment. I tho...Hi Falguni: Thanks so much for your comment. I thought maybe that was part of what you were doing with your comment, and it ended up begin very effective. I was also thinking about the tension between professional conventions, which expect me, the speaker, to "be the master" in that situation by turning your question into something "productive" that reflected my supposed brilliance, and the work that your comment needed to do, which was short-circuit the turn to mastery that was happening in the session. So that, along with the pedagogical situation, is another instance where we academics need to reflect on our self-presentation as "masters" or "experts". I take your point about us needing to avoid expert-posturing very seriously--which is really hard to do when we face tons of institutional pressure to sell/position ourselves as such (and this institutional pressure likely makes the refusal of mastery-narratives even more important). The discomfort or awkwardness of not presenting oneself as a master (perhaps, even of "failing" or falling short) is maybe one thing my paper suggests but doesnt' directly speak to. It would be an interesting line to follow through more fully (and maybe I'll try to post here about it over break). So thanks for steering me here :)robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09897759212487269563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695251485921322505.post-77399330447236743142012-11-29T10:08:43.216-05:002012-11-29T10:08:43.216-05:00Hi, Robin:
Thanks for thinking through your paper...Hi, Robin:<br /><br />Thanks for thinking through your paper and your thoughts here. I think you are the right that the move to mastery is quite problematic. The move to mastery is a deceptive refuge by which to avoid a discussion of the existential implications of the fact that we are still in a serious racial crisis. That was also part of my point in raising the question about the Black woman who could not find someone to help her as she watched her boys drown. It is not clear to me that those who teach about race/phil. race (myself included) are in any position of expertise to insist that we know the "right way" to think about race, given the myriad ways in which we can hide, avoid, conceal ourselves from a number of implications (whether b/c we are white, brown, bourgeois, academic, or any number of avoidance mechanisms). In any case, good paper and important discussion.Falguni Shethnoreply@blogger.com