RE: Re: the most spiritual

From: Philip Sherburne (philip@askjeeves.com)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 23:42:13 CEST

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    Not to drag this out, but it's arguable that "white is white." There's
    quite a bit of interesting scholarship examining the history of European
    immigrants in the US--Irish, Italian, German, Scandinavian, Polish, Russian,
    etc.--and at a time when WASPs, primarily, constituted the privileged class,
    all these other groups (who now would be seen simply as "white") were very
    much an other. (Not to mention, for example, Jews, who most certainly were
    not "white" in the same way that WASPs were "white.")
     
    My point is simply that difference--and the oppressions that result--is a
    complex matter. And that the categories we assume to be somehow stable can
    be problematized in lots of interesting, and productive, ways.
     
    -Philip

     

    what are you talking about??? white people are africans? i will
    continue to use the expression people of color because that includes
    everyone non-white and includes more that just black or african
    american people. how is what all the colors mixed together? white
    is white!



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