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February 3rd, 2012
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Concretely, black women as intellectual producers and consumers do not have open access to organs of public opinion, so that their “muteness” or “silence,” or whatever one wants to call being “gagged,” quite literally springs from a well of contempt and loathing so pure and so deep in the national psyche that, if one could gauge its full and vicious strength, she would never write another line.
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Hortense Spillers (1995) ‘Review: Wallace and Dent, Black Popular Culture; Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman; and Wallace, Invisibility Blues—From Pop to Theory.’ African American Review 29.1; p. 125. (via james-bliss)
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