The truth about emotion

Since the founding of the US, white men have set the terms of intellectual, political and artistic discourse. The white man's values have been so completely internalized that most people don't even recognize a culturally-centered epistemology that guarantees white male supremacy. However,...

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Published inEnglish journal Vol. 84; no. 4; p. 14
Main Author Nash, Peter Adam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01.04.1995
EditionHigh school edition
Subjects
Anzaldua, Gloria (1942-2004)
Culture
Emotions
Epistemology
Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
Females
French, Marilyn
Friedan, Betty
Gilligan, Carol
Green, Henry (1905-1974)
Intellectuals
LaDuke, Winona Helena Basha
Lorde, Audre
Males
Morrison, Toni (1931-2019)
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Mythology
Oral History
Political discourse
Religious Factors
Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Said, Edward
Saul, John Ralston, 1947
Silko, Leslie Marmon (1948- )
Truth
Vizenor, Gerald Robert (1934- )
West, Cornel
Whites
New York
Americas
United States > US
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Summary:Since the founding of the US, white men have set the terms of intellectual, political and artistic discourse. The white man's values have been so completely internalized that most people don't even recognize a culturally-centered epistemology that guarantees white male supremacy. However, women and people of color are beginning to bring the cultural and the personal and the emotional into contemporary intellectual discourse.
ISSN:0013-8274
2161-8895