In a speech entitled, "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action," poet Audre Lorde, writes about how a brush with cancer forced her to reevaluate her life. "The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger ... fear [of] contempt, of censure ... fear [of] the visibility without which we cannot truly live." (Lorde 42)
This Lorde quotation is sadly relevant today because, nearly a quarter of a century after Lorde wrote "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" (1984), silence, censure, and erasure continue to be painful and potentially spirit-killing issues for women of color, including those who have--ostensibly--been afforded a particularly privileged voice through academic credentialing. Racial dynamics dominate split labor market economies (plantation and industrialized).
The place accorded women of color in academia's "split labor market," is where members of historically disenfranchised groups "compete with each other to gain access to a limited reservoir of privilege that has been liberated by the academic power structure." Raced/gendered silencing of women of color is also rampant. Women of color are silenced within the academy when racialized experience is defined largely, if not solely, by men of color, and gendered experience is defined largely, if not solely, by white women.
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