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Wed Oct-31-07 09:42 AM
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48. The pageant issue is just a subset.. |
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..of a whole larger set of issues regarding which sub-population have the power to claim and assert difference and to mobilize that identity and difference as a strategy for political and social influence.
To some degree this depends on popular opposition derived from the social construction of that identity (and the degree to which 'historical oppression' has been grafted onto the identity label). Groups that can't claim this are less empowered to assert a special status but are not entirely powerless. I imagine you might have a Miss Evangelical pageant? Perhaps a Miss Union pageant? I doubt a Miss Anglo-Saxon pageant.
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