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- Title
Race, School, and Seinfeld: Autoethnographic Sketching in Black and White.
- Authors
Wamsted, John O.
- Abstract
Applying the Deluzoguattarian concept of the trace, this article explores interactions between a White teacher and his Black students and the way race is coconstructed therein. Using a short story by the Argentine mystery writer Jorge Luis Borges as a frame, the author connects the poststructural philosophy of the trace to current notions of postracial color blindness. His own experience, however, as demonstrated through autoethnographic sketches, is posited as experiential evidence that contests the chimerical nature of such color-blind claims. A caesura, rather than a conclusion, is reached through a gloss of an episode of the television series Seinfeld. The author believes this piece of pop culture demonstrates the tensions existing between the idealism of postracial color blindness and the realities of the trace.
- Subjects
COLOR (Philosophy); VISION disorders; COLOR vision; COLOR blindness; BLACK students
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiry, 2011, Vol 17, Issue 10, p972
- ISSN
1077-8004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077800411425153