Marginalized groups reject postmodernism as a cover story for elite class interests

Evidence

But affirmations of popularity and appeals to the “people” are notoriously unreliable, since people will always be found out there who decline the characterization and deny any implication in the matter. Thus microgroups and “minorities,” women as well as the internal Third World, and segments of the external one as well, frequently repudiate the very concept of a Postmodernism as the universalizing cover story for what is essentially a much narrower class-cultural operation serving white and male-dominated elites in the advanced countries. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 694

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether the ‘cultural dominant’ thesis can survive this charge of it being a universalizing cover story is exactly what the reader wants to push on for falsifiability.
• XREF: connects to: Postcolonial scholars are marginalized from high deconstructionist ethics discourse — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 70; Micropolitics and identity-group organizing are themselves postmodern phenomena — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 694; Postmodernity extends modernity’s egalitarianism to subaltern others — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 506 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postcolonial scholars are marginalized from high deconstructionist ethics discourse — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 70; Micropolitics and identity-group organizing are themselves postmodern phenomena — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 694; Postmodernity extends modernity’s egalitarianism to subaltern others — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 506 (+3 more)