Ethnicity (W&H  741-45)

• What does the term "ethnicity" refer to?
• Why focus on "ethnicity" instead of "race"
• race implies biolgocial difference -- tends to stereotype, essentialistic.  Race socially constructed
• "race" focuses on people of color, as if no one esle has a race. Continues the normalization of whiteness.
• What are the problems in reading works from different ethnic traditions, and how do those problems relate to the central issues of feminist lit crit?
• If you lack similar experiences, you can miss or misunderstand things
• Bring your own biases in, and you wind up misreading the story because you project some stereotype or some story of your own onto the one you are reading.
• You can not read, get bored, decide this isn't important because it doesn't speak to you.
• What is "the racialization of whiteness" -- see whiteness as itself an ethnicity; not the norm. White people are European-Americans.

• How are the women that Walker talks about at the beginning of her essay like Shakepeare's sister?  How is the whole essay an answer to, an extension and correction of Woolf's book?
• Who are the "Saints"?  the women who strugggled, who survived, who made other Black people's survival possible. The women who went crazy from the burden.  But these women were also the Artists.  There was no space in teh world for women to be creative.
• literacy-- Woolf, G&G talk about the anxiety of authorship;
• Who is Phillis Wheatley?  link1 | Text of poems | Link 2
• Walker is calling for the same rediscovery of the tradtions--- we think back through our mothers
• recognition that artistic creativity comes in many forms, and exists under all kinds of circumstances.
• What do we like about the essay
• It brings out the real creativity of women that is often forgotten
• What elements of this essay are typical of early 20thC feminist views?
• Document in "cultural criticism"
• If you had to label this essay as a "kind" of criticism, what label would you give it?  -- expressive b/c it talks about the authors, about their creativity.  Celebration of creative process
  

• How does Walker's account of her education show parallels wiht Fetterely and white feminists' experience?