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...rhetorical practices which create worldwide conceptions of identity. He challenges his reader to refuse blind acceptance of racial categories. Before classifying individuals or groups of individuals as "Black" or "White" or "Hispanic," we should "go back to Marx and Weber and Durkheim and Du Bois and Simone de Beauvoir and other historical sociologists who are concerned about providing an account of...rhetorical enactments." In other words, we must question the origins of certain racial and racist constructions before we condemn/define/evaluate people in accordance with them. West is interested in the history of the idea of race rather than its current...
...some work-study jobs and books by de Beauvoir...
...facts and the fiction they gave rise to. The biography tracks Genet to Paris, where he became Cocteau's literary find, his "golden thug," and later, Sartre's "pet queer." White imbues even the most frequently told stories with a novel charm. His recreation of the De Beauvoir-Sartre headquarters at the Cafe Deux Magots is sardonic and affectionate, and the deliciously lengthy and opinionated portrait of Cocteau could stand on its own as a study of a "genius who never wrote a bad line or a good book...
There are some notable missing people. If a chapter on Friedan, why not a mention of Simone De Beauvoir, whose The Second Sex, published in 1953, gave U.S. feminists a modern ideology? Klaus Fuchs, the British atomic spy, makes a number of appearances, but Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for espionage in 1953, are strangely absent...
...READ DE BEAUVOIR...