khmersuperman

The “mythic norm” is the idea that there is this supposed un-marked “normal” American walking around whom we all think of as representing a more American American than others. The “mythic norm” is a white, Anglo-Saxon, straight, wealthy, thin, young, male protestant. Anyone who deviates from this “norm” is marked. Hence demarcations like “woman author,” or “Native American,” or “African American” or “Lesbian African American,”