[t]here Is One And Only One Way

To Act In A Way Both Sexist And Racist, To Maintain One's Class Privilege, It Is Only Necessary To Act In The Customary, Ordinary, Usual, Even Polite Manner.

Privileged Groups, Like Everyone Else, Want To Think Well Of Themselves And To Believe That They Are Acting Generously And Justly.

And Middle-class Women, Although Taught To Value Established Forms, Are In The Same Position As The Working Class: Neither Can Use Established Forms To Express What The Forms Were Never Intended To Express (and May Very Well Operate To Conceal).

I Once Asked A Young Dissertation Writer Whether Her Suddenly Grayed Hair Was Due To Ill Health Or Personal Tragedy; She Answered: “it Was The Footnotes”.

Art Is Collective. Always, It Has A Tradition Behind It.