La otredad como centro: Espacios ganados a la cultura hegemónica
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ABSTRACT:
Because they are attached to imaginary axes constructed—sometimes fallaciously—from a hegemonic point of view, the representation of certain groups in society may originate a generalized “phobia” that, in worst-case scenarios, is reabsorbed as violence or, in other instances, is deluded as “humor”—a soft-core form of aggression—when metaphoric expressions symbolically replace the violent signifiers. Both results are undesirable and may be reverted if awareness takes places first within the groups and later on in society as a whole. After reaching layers of tolerance toward minorities, societies should aim at accepting and integrating them at all levels. Social advances of these groups—somehow marginal in the U.S.—are part of a process in academia that began with the creation and development of centers promoting historic and cultural studies and raising awareness while stressing the social relevance of their subjects. This address covers three of them in particular—Women, LGBT, Queer—and follows their development and the social importance they have achieved in the last 40 years.
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