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Trinh T. Minh-ha

Bio: Trinh T. Minh-ha is an academic researcher from San Francisco State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Identity (social science) & Upper Volta. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 33 publications receiving 3182 citations.

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TL;DR: The Story Began Long Ago... I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box The triple bind Silence in time Rites of passage The Guilt Freedom and the masses For the people, by the people and from the people Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language A sketched window on the world The infinite play of empty mirrors Writing woman II. Difference: OA Special Third World Women IssueO The Policy of Oseparate developmentO The Sense of specialness The question of roots and authenticity Infinite Layer: I am not i can
Abstract: The Story Began Long Ago... I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box The triple bind Silence in time Rites of passage The Guilt Freedom and the masses For the people, by the people, and from the people Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language A sketched window on the world The infinite play of empty mirrors Writing woman II. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man The reign of worn codes The positivist dream: We, the natives They, the natives A Western Science of man A Myth of mythology What OmanO and which OmanO? Gossip and science: a conversation on what I love according to truth Nativist interpretation See them as they see each other III. Difference: OA Special Third World Women IssueO The Policy of Oseparate developmentO The Sense of specialness The question of roots and authenticity Infinite Layer: I am not i can be you and me The female identity enclosure Third World? OWomanO and the subtle power of linguistic exclusion Subject-in-the-making Ethnicity or womanhood: whose duality? The Gender controversy IV. GrandmaOs Story Truth and fact: story and history Keepers and transmitters Storytelling in the OcivilizedO context A regenerating force At once OblackO and OwhiteO magic The woman warrior: she who breaks open the spell A cure and a protection from illness OTell it the way they tell itO OThe story must be told. There must not be any lieO Notes Selected Bibliography Index

1,122 citations

Book
01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: Minh-ha is a writer, film-maker and composer as discussed by the authors who emigrated from Vietnam to the United States in 1970 after a year at the University of Saigon, and continued her studies of music and composition, French literature and ethnomusicology in the US and later in Paris.
Abstract: Trinh T. Minh-ha is a writer, film-maker and composer. She emigrated from Vietnam to the United States in 1970 after a year at the University of Saigon, and continued her studies of music and composition, French literature and ethnomusicology in the US and later in Paris. She taught music for three years at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal. She is currently Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Her vast body of work includes the books Un Art sans oeuvre (1981), En Miniscules (poems, 1987) African Spaces: Designs for Living in Upper Volta (1985) in collaboration with Jean-Paul Bourdier, and the films Reassemblage (1982), Naked Spaces, Living is Round (1985) and Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989). An essay by her entitled 'Difference: "A special Third World women issue"' was published in Feminist Review No. 25, 1987. Her most recent publication is Woman, Native, Other: Writing, Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989). Pratibha Parmar spoke to her in Berkeley, California, about 'cultural hybridization and decentred realities, fragmented selves and multiple identities, marginal voices and languages of rupture' all of which are issues raised in the book and in Minh-ha's films.

438 citations

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01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: Ferguson as mentioned in this paper introduces an anthology of diverse essays by 27 authors engaged in deconstruction of the Western binary framework which connotes the Other, in an examination of cultural marginalization.
Abstract: Ferguson introduces an anthology of diverse essays by 27 authors engaged in a deconstruction of the Western binary framework which connotes the Other, in an examination of cultural marginalization. Texts are grouped into sections which explore the critical context of contemporary cultural debates, address the question of how to affirm cultural identity, and discuss the counter movements of displacement and resistance. Includes images selected by Gonzalez-Torres and texts by Watney on the construction of an "African AIDS," by Anzaldua on the complexity of linguistic identity, and by Cixous on sexual difference. Brief biographical notes on contributors. Bibl. 12 p.

399 citations

Book
04 Feb 2014
TL;DR: In this article, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, and examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology.
Abstract: In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductive analyses, even those that appear politically adroit The multiply-hyphenated peoples of color are not simply placed in a duality between two cultural heritages; throughout, Trinh describes the predicament of having to live "a difference that has no name and too many names already" She argues for multicultural revision of knowledge so that a new politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it By rewriting the always emerging, already distorted place of struggle, such work seeks to "beat the master at his own game"

384 citations

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08 Jul 2005
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the traveling self as "the self that moves physically from one place to another, following "public routes and beaten tracks" within a mappedmovement", and the self that embarks on an undetermined journeying practice, having constantly to negotiate between home and abroad, native culture and adopted culture.
Abstract: Every voyage can be said to involve a re-siting of boundaries. The travelling self is here both the self that moves physically from one place to another, following ‘public routes and beaten tracks’ within a mapped movement, and the self that embarks on an undetermined journeying practice, having constantly to negotiate between home and abroad, native culture and adopted culture, or more creatively speaking, between a here, a there, and an elsewhere.

142 citations


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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: To understand the central claims of evolutionary psychology the authors require an understanding of some key concepts in evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.
Abstract: Evolutionary psychology is one of many biologically informed approaches to the study of human behavior. Along with cognitive psychologists, evolutionary psychologists propose that much, if not all, of our behavior can be explained by appeal to internal psychological mechanisms. What distinguishes evolutionary psychologists from many cognitive psychologists is the proposal that the relevant internal mechanisms are adaptations—products of natural selection—that helped our ancestors get around the world, survive and reproduce. To understand the central claims of evolutionary psychology we require an understanding of some key concepts in evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. Philosophers are interested in evolutionary psychology for a number of reasons. For philosophers of science —mostly philosophers of biology—evolutionary psychology provides a critical target. There is a broad consensus among philosophers of science that evolutionary psychology is a deeply flawed enterprise. For philosophers of mind and cognitive science evolutionary psychology has been a source of empirical hypotheses about cognitive architecture and specific components of that architecture. Philosophers of mind are also critical of evolutionary psychology but their criticisms are not as all-encompassing as those presented by philosophers of biology. Evolutionary psychology is also invoked by philosophers interested in moral psychology both as a source of empirical hypotheses and as a critical target.

4,670 citations

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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star as mentioned in this paper explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world and examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary.
Abstract: What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.

4,480 citations

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Kathy Davis1
TL;DR: The concept of intersectionality, the interaction of multiple identities and experiences of exclusion and subordination, has been heralded as one of the most important cont... as mentioned in this paper, and it has been recognized as a powerful concept for social justice.
Abstract: Since its inception, the concept of `intersectionality' — the interaction of multiple identities and experiences of exclusion and subordination — has been heralded as one of the most important cont...

1,984 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examines the place of refugees in the national order of things and suggests that the displacement of refugees is constituted differently from other kinds of deterritorialization by those states, organizations, and scholars who are concerned with refugees.
Abstract: In this new theoretical crossroads, examining the place of refugees in the national order of things becomes a clarifying exercise. On the one hand, trying to understand the circumstances of particular groups of refugees illuminates the complexity of the ways in which people construct, remember, and lay claim to particular places as “homelands” or “nations.” On the other, examining how refugees become an object of knowledge and management suggests that the displacement of refugees is constituted differently from other kinds of deterritorialization by those states, organizations, and scholars who are concerned with refugees. Here, the contemporary category of refugees is a particularly informative one in the study of the sociopolitical construction of space and place.

1,913 citations

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TL;DR: Reflexivity is commonly used in qualitative research and has been posited and accepted as a method qualitative researchers can and should use to legitimize, validate, and question research practices and representations.
Abstract: Reflexivity is commonly used in qualitative research and has been posited and accepted as a method qualitative researchers can and should use to legitimize, validate, and question research practices and representations. This paper closely examines the role of reflexivity as a methodological tool as it intersects with debates and questions surrounding representation and legitimization in qualitative research, within modernist and postmodernist ideologies, and pays close attention to how reflexivity is being defined and used in present-day research. Specifically, the author identifies and discusses the problematics of four common trends in present-day uses of reflexivity: reflexivity as recognition of self, reflexivity as recognition of other, reflexivity as truth, and reflexivity as transcendence. The author argues for a move away from comfortable uses of reflexivity to what she terms uncomfortable reflexive practices and provides an overview of the work of three authors who practice reflexivities of disco...

1,702 citations