The Binds That Tie: Civility And Social Difference

Educational Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 169-186

  Mayo, Cris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 33845258143     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2002.00169.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1938), 63.
2. Angela Y. Davis, "Gender, Class, and Multiculturalism: -Rethinking 'Race' Politics" In Mapping Multiculturalism, ed. Avery F.(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Gordon and Christopher New-field 1996), 41.
3. James Schmidt, "Civic Meetings, Cultural Meanings" In Civility, ed Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame: University of Indiana Press, 2000), 43 and Burton Zwiebach, Civility and Disobedience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), 5-6.
4. Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 29-30.
5. Because the authors I examine use the terms civility and etiquette to describe forms of personal and political interaction, I will also use etiquette and civility interchangeably. For a fuller discussion of philosophical disputes over the place of civility in a separate civil or social sphere, see Schmidt, "Civic Meetings, Cultural Meanings," 17-39 and Lawrence Cahoone, "Civic Meetings, Cultural Meanings," in Rouner, Civility, 40-64. For an account of civility as belonging to the political sphere see Edward Shils, "Civility and Civil Society," in Civility and Citizenship in Liberal Democratic Societies, ed. Edward C. Banfield (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 1-16 and Clifford Orwin, "Citizenship and Civility as Components of Liberal Domocracy" in Banfield, Civility and Citizenship in Liberal Democratic Societies, 75-94. For a discussion of civility and civil society as a "parallel state," see William M. Sullivan, "Making Civil Society Work: Democracy as a Problem of Civic Cooperation," in Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal, ed. Robert K. Fullinwider (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), 31-54.
6. John F. Kasson; Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America (New York: Hill and Wang, 1990), 10-11.
7. Stephen L. Carter, Civility: Manner, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy (New York: Basic Books, 1998), 35.
8. David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 1991).
9. John Keane, Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
10. Mark Kingwell, A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995), 6.
11. Carter, Civility, xi and Kingwell, A Civil Tongue, 26.
12. Kingwell, A Civil Tongue, 41.
13. Benjamin Barber, A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998), 117.
14. Woolf, Three Guineas, 9.
15. Etiquette manuals from the nineteenth century are quite concerned with recognition and "cutting," postulating that if one does know someone one sees on the street one must acknowledge that acquaintance. Some manuals complicate this a bit suggesting that if one meets someone one would not usually meet at friend's house or a resort, one is not obligated to recognize that person in another context. Further, one was not obligated to introduce or recognize people not of one's "set." As Mrs. Sherwood, a popular etiquette writer of the late nineteenth century, argued, it would be kind to make those kinds of introductions but etiquette and kindness were two different things. See Ester B. Aresty, The Best Behavior: The Course of Good Manners - From Antiquity to the Present -As Seen through Courtesy and Etiquette Books (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970), 270.
16. Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), 2.
17. Homl K. Bhabha, "Sly Civility" in The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994), 99.
18. Doug Cregars quoted in Lena Williams, It's the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions that Get Under the Skins of Blacks and Whites (New York: Harcourt, 2006); 12.
19. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
20. Bruce A. Jacobs, Race Manners: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999). This book will be cited as RM in the text for all subsequent references.
21. Aresty, The Best Behavior, 246.
22. William Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), 225.
23. Williams, It's the Little Things, 7.