Subject(ed) to Recognition

• Published in: American quarterly Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 771 - 798
• Main Author: Gray, Herman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: College Park Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2013
• Subjects: Alliance; Alliances; Classroom communication; Colonialism; Cultural Pluralism; Ethnic Identity; Ethnicity; Freedom; Gender; Internet; Markets; Modernism; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Politics; Race; Racial Differences; Recognition; Representation; Sex differences; Sexuality; Social networks; Society; Subjectivity; Twentieth Century; Values

I argue that we have reached the political limit of what our cultural investment in media recognition and representation might deliver with respect to social and cultural justice. This limit is expressed by the alignment of several interlocking histories including new technological capacities for re...