Whiteness

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  9/5/2020
  

  Beyond Jermag Yev Sev: A Roundtable on Armenian American Identity

  A dialogue with a historian of Armenians in the United States shows that the boundaries of the "white race" have shifted historically and been determined not by biology but by politics played out in immigration courts. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/25/2020
  

  ‘Please Don’t Convert to Whiteness’: Johann N. Neem on Current Trends in Racism and Antiracism

  Historian Johann N. Neem, an immigrant from India, decries the white supremacy unleashed by Trump but questions whether trendy antiracism discourse is encouraging white progressives to uphold the ideal of an America open to all in an interview.   

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/14/2020
  

  Settler Fantasies, Televised

  by Hannah Manshell

  The genre of house hunting and home improvement shows involve contestants claiming the prerogatives of owning property, which has historically been allotted to white people at the expense of the indigenous in several societies. 

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• SOURCE: Counterpunch
  8/3/2020
  

  Renouncing White Privilege: A Left Critique of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”

  by David Barber

  "The dominant aspect of the contradiction of white supremacy for poor and working class whites is not that white supremacy advantages us, but that it ties us to our own oppression."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/22/2020
  

  Why "White" Should be Capitalized, Too

  by Nell Irvin Painter

  A capitalized “White” challenges that freedom, by unmasking “Whiteness” as an American racial identity as historically important as “Blackness” — which it certainly is.

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• 6/28/2020
  

  Those We Abuse, We Loathe

  by J. Chester Johnson

  Until white Americans reckon with the significance of white supremacy in America, they will deflect a sense of responsibility by laying blame for black suffering on black Americans themselves. 

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• 6/14/2020
  

  It's Time for White Parents to Have The Talk with their Children

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Many African American parents have a common experience of teaching their children about racism and its dangers. Not enough white parents talk with their children about how racism affects their lives. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/26/19
  

  A Racist Attack Shows How Whiteness Evolves

  by Nell Irvin Painter

  An assault at a New Jersey high school football game had an unexpected cast of characters.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/22/19
  

  America Needs an Education in Whiteness

  by Jordan Lindsey

  Not a white equivalent of Black History Month—but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts on race relations.