Rhetorical talk of border crossing lacks force without concrete cross-group dialogue examples

Evidence

It is fashionable these days, when “difference” is a hot topic in progressive circles, to talk about “hybridity” and “border crossing,” but we often have no concrete examples of individuals who actually occupy different locations within structures, sharing ideas with one another, mapping out terrains of commonality, connection, and shared concern with teaching practices. … We needed concrete counter-examples that would disrupt the seemingly fixed (yet often unstated) assumptions that it was really unlikely such individuals could meet across boundaries. Without these counter-examples I felt we were all in danger of losing contact, of creating conditions that would make contact impossible. Hence, I formed my conviction that public dialogues could serve as useful interventions. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 232

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to hooks’s broader method of pairing critique with lived counter-example, echoed in the practice of naming specific African American women as allies recorded across her pedagogy chapters. — connects to: The rhetoric of difference may fail to articulate concrete social struggles — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 737; Public dialogue across identity lines counters the over-represented narrative of irreconcilable division; Words and political talk themselves constitute subversive action
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The rhetoric of difference may fail to articulate concrete social struggles — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 737; Public dialogue across identity lines counters the over-represented narrative of irreconcilable division; Words and political talk themselves constitute subversive action

Broader Connections

• The rhetoric of difference may fail to articulate concrete social struggles #corroborates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 737
• Public dialogue across identity lines counters the over-represented narrative of irreconcilable division #exemplifies (0.78)
• Words and political talk themselves constitute subversive action #complicates (0.72)