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COAGULATING CATEGORIES: A REPLY TO RESPONSES
Author(s) -
Hollinsworth David
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1992.tb02414.x
Subject(s) - ideology , interpretation (philosophy) , race (biology) , focus (optics) , gender studies , white (mutation) , sociology , epistemology , social psychology , psychology , political science , philosophy , politics , linguistics , law , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , optics , gene
… ideologies of race define both white and black peoples, just as gender ideologies define both women and men. Thus, while ‘experience’ is an enabling focus in the classroom, unless it is explicitly understood as historical, contingent, and the result of interpretation, it can coagulate into frozen, binary, psychologistic positions (Mohanty, 1990: 195).