>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>Ricardo is implying that if you are born rich in the Third World,
>>you are of necessity forever trapped in the aristocratic ideology
>>of enjoying leisure & dependence upon servants, moreover endorsing
>>the social relations that give you many servants who wait upon you,
>>whatever your political commitment (to Marxism, feminism, world
>>systems theory, etc.).
>
>At a talk in NYC last year, Spivak said she did not come from a rich family...
In 1959 in India--when Gayatri Chakravorty graduated from the
University of Calcutta with a First in English--80 percent of Indian
women over 15 could not read. Her family was not "rich" by
first-world standards (she went to graduate school at Cornell on
borrowed money), and thus it was not "super-rich" by Indian standards.
But it does seem somewhat of a confusion of categories to call her
family "solid metropolitan middle class"...
Brad DeLong
