This conference is much less than world-shaking, but the venue is beautiful and nearby, so we are here. What I learned by presenting this paper, which ongoing research indicates is not original insofar as others have already made many of my points: these ideas are still new, and controversial to most people.
This means that no, I should not just refer to others, I should parse the ideas out out and explain them at yet greater length and in yet starker relief. And it is my “evoke-and-elide” thesis on race, that really is new and really needs development.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Racism is evolving.
I have a feeling that your “evoke and elide” thesis is an isomorphic construct to the computational cultural algorithms of Arriaga and Sancho. This is an intuitive reaction and I’m going to have to think about it some more.
“When Guillén began to produce the type of language that would characterize his poetry and his image of Afro, authors such as Jorge Enrique Adoum (1946), Mirta Aguirre (1959), Ciro Alegría (1954), Jorge Amado (1952), Enrique Amorín (1952), Louis Aragón (1949), Langston Hughes (1948), René Depresté (1969) Mario Benedetti (1971), Ezequiel Martínez Estrada (1967), Emilio Ballagas (1931), Jorge de Lima (1964), José Lins do Rego (1947), Jaques Roumain (1942) and Pablo Neruda (1947), among many others, commented on his work and placed him on the peak of the relevant representations of a silenced Afro-descendent voice.”
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000145/000145.html
I will have to study that as it seems quite interesting. My evoke-and-elide thesis has to do with the production of whiteness but isomosphism, yes, hmmm. Fascinating-seeming article, I must seriously read! 😀