Talk:work the hyphens

@Qwertygiy Re your edit: [1]. The paper is here: [2]. It is very much about race. Your change to "blue-green" and "hunter-gatherer" seems to be obscuring something. Equinox ◑ 12:44, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

It is clearly not derived from hyphenated racial titles, like African-American. Not even considering all the further cites of the term in completely different contexts such as psychologists working with their patients, the paper itself is not remotely limited to speaking about interacting with races with hyphenated title, but *any* marginalized group that has been "Othered". The very first usage, on the very first page, makes this perfectly apparent to me:

• First, I examine the hyphen at which Self-Other join in the politics of everyday life, that is, the hyphen that both separates and merges personal identities with our inventions of Others. I then take up how qualitative researchers work this hyphen. Here I gather a growing set of works on "inscribing the Other," viewing arguments that critical, feminist, and/or Third World scholars have posed about social science as a tool of domination. This section collects a messy series of questions about methods, ethics, and epistemologies as we rethink how researchers have spoken "of" and "for" Others while occluding ourselves and our own investments, burying the contradictions that percolate at the Self-Other hyphen.

(Emphasis mine.) Qwertygiy (talk) 13:45, 4 February 2024 (UTC)