Cixous Reading Response

Definitions

Whiteness:

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white-ness

noun

1. the quality or state of being white. 

2. paleness.

3. purity.

4. a white substance.

Other site:

"What is going to happen as the ozone layer gets thinner and thinner and thinner and people are subjected to more and more radiation?" she asked. "Will white people stay white?"

"Malcolm X talked about the ‘white man,' " she said, adding that "Malcolm X helped create the idea of one single white race."

Marginalized:

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mar-gin-al-ize

verb (used with object), mar·gin·al·ized, mar·gin·al·iz·ing.

to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.

Other site:

She explained that it means not being accepted by the central part of a social group.

Heteortypical:

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het-er-o-typ-ic

adjective, Biology .

of or pertaining to the first or reductional division in meiosis.

Other site:

a term pertaining to the binding of two structures to each other. Heterotypic interactions are those involving binding between dissimilar structures.

Works Cited

Cypher, Allen. "Marginalized." Marginalized. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://acypher.com              /marginalized.html>.

Godnick, Max. "Princeton Prof. Asks: What Is Whiteness?" The Brown Daily Herald. N.p., 9 Mar. 2010. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.browndailyherald.com/princeton-prof-asks-what-is-whiteness-1.2184712>.

"Heterotypic." (Cytokines & Cells Encyclopedia. N.p., 21 June 2011. Web. 26 Nov. 2012.

<http://www.copewithcytokines.de/cope.cgi?key=heterotypic>.

"Heterotypical." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, 2012. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heterotypical?s=t>.

"Marginalized." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, 2012. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/marginalized?s=t>.

"Whiteness." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, 2012. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whiteness?s=t>.

Response

      My definition of whiteness is a persons color, being white. I know it was made up, and I know that society, the world, puts meaning behind it. I'm not totally sure what marginalized is. I think of a group of people being marginalized. Maybe in the world people that are not white are marginalized. I have no idea what heterotypical. Everything I found on it had to deal with biology. I think maybe it has to do with hetero marriage in the world?? 

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