Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Terrance wrote:

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> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> > 
> > Hope The Negro is appreciating all the attention he's getting here.
> 
> "Stereotyping, in the portrayal of Mr. McAfee, demonstrates
> that Pynchon's exploration of the limitations of the
> children's fictional integration can be read as a commentary
> on the limitations of the children's fictional translations
> of black problems into white discourse, including
> especially, the translation made by Pynchon in THE SECRET
> INTEGRATION. 
> 
> Joe Boulter "Children and Slaves in the West": Imagining
> Fraternity AMong Outlaws In The Secret Integration
> OCLR.V24.Fall.99
> 
> "entirely theirs, their friend and robot..."  TSI
> 
> My post on the Old Negro is my take on  "THE NEW NEGRO" and
> essay in the book by the same name, by and Edited by Alan
> Locke
> 
> "I Too" and "Song" are by Langston Hughes 
> 
> The Poems "I TOO" and "Song"
> 

I remember well my own childhood discourse on the Negro question: It
postulated a "fairness mechanism" by which the White children (like
me) would be Black when they grew up; and White adults (like my
parents) had been Black when they were children. It seemed the only
possibly explanation.

					P.