We don’t read Michel Foucault asking if he is authentically French. Western writers are granted rhetorical agency, analysis, and theory—the ability to tell truths that are not contained in their bodies.
Smith, A. (2014) ‘Native Studies at the Horizon of Death: Theorizing Ethnographic Entrapment and Settler Self-Reflexivity’, in Simpson, A. and Smith, A. (eds) Theorizing Native Studies, pp. 207-234. Durham, Duke University Press.
(via socio-logic)
Thoughts?