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It is imperative that we understand all the complexities of the differentiated modes of labor, and it is very important to understand that not all of them are necessarily incorporated into global capital as totalizing. However, in the end, claiming to be able to recognize effortlessly all these proliferating forms of difference only reproduces a totalizing sense that we can know and see everything. A part of the project must be to consider, again, what we do not, and cannot, know. Such a project is crucial because of the ways in which texts like White Teeth have been mobilized as evidence of a multiculturalist resolution to the violent histories of colonialism.

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