“When I get a text now, I’m going to say: Who wrote this? What’s being included and what’s being left out?” Inherent in this young woman’s observation is not only a critical examination of a text, but by extension, a questioning of the process by which the text was selected … Her question is a question about power, authority, point of view, pedagogy, inclusion, and exclusion—as each relates, in part, to cultural identity.
