N-Words and B-Words: Can people reclaim these words?
(Disclaimer: If you are easily offended by the proper spelling of the words hinted at in my title, then do not read beyond this point.) As a postcolonial scholar, I’ve become familiar with what Homi Bhabha calls the “ambiguity of colonial discourse.” In short, Bhabha suggests that colonialism attempts to recreate indigenous minds/bodies in the […]