Consider where we started and where we are now. We have discussed minority and majority, and now we come full circle to review our own understanding of the field that is minority literature. Once again ask yourself: what do I think? How has our journey impacted or stretched my own understanding? We know that our study on this type of minority is small and there are others: Scholars, like DuBois, question the changing of the color-line. Gay studies programs at major universities question clear-cut readings of gender and sexuality. Deaf and Dis/ability studies question the notion of which bodies and realities we consider normal, or able, and which we marginalize as not quite whole or fully able. Studies of mixed raced and multi-cultured lives and experiences challenge the earlier notions of race and ethnicity. Studies focused on cultural representations of age and aging question our culture's persistent focus on youth and youthful bodies/minds as the most desirable or attractive.

Have you ever tried to write, holding a pen by your toes? Have you ever thought about how it might feel to live without a limb? Consider how disability fits into the concept of diversity. In a symposium on "Disability Studies and the University," Professor Simi Linton sat in a wheelchair before the audience and talked about the disability project. "Disability studies' project is to weave disabled people back into the fabric of society, thread-by-thread, and theory-by-theory. It aims to expose the ways that disability has been made exceptional and to work to naturalize disabled people-remake us as full citizens whose rights and privileges are intact, whose history and contributions are recorded, and whose often distorted representations in art, literature, film, theater, and other forms of artistic expression are fully analyzed."