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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