Delpit

I felt that reading Delpit's essay has significantly effected my understanding of discursive theories limits. While I agree with the idea of discourse as a specific collection of ideas and analytical strategies relating to a certain academic field, I feel that Discourse be it primary or secondary is too broad a generalization of behaviors, environment and specific personalities to be held as a valid theory. The conceptualization of "at-risk" youth being of another realm of understanding and learning is a degrading inference in my opinion.