enacting whiteness
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ny_quantНекто Nell Irvin Painter, the author of “The History of White People.”, ввел в обращение эту новую концепцию. Поводом для opinion column in NYT стал безобразный инцидент в одной из школ NJ где мальчики индийского происхождения (где родились не сообщают) мало того что обозвали черных девочек ниггерами так ещё и обоссали.
Painter объясняет: Instead of asking what the boys’ reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack, we should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way...race is something we perform, not just something we are in our blood or in the color of our skin. ... In the New Jersey incident, the heritage or skin color of the boys suspected of the assault doesn’t matter. What matters is that they were participating in this pattern and thus enacting whiteness in a very traditional way.
Вот так-то, друзья мои. If you behave like a piece of shit, it's not like you are a piece of shit, it's because you're enacting whiteness, the only true source of evil in this country.
Painter объясняет: Instead of asking what the boys’ reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack, we should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way...race is something we perform, not just something we are in our blood or in the color of our skin. ... In the New Jersey incident, the heritage or skin color of the boys suspected of the assault doesn’t matter. What matters is that they were participating in this pattern and thus enacting whiteness in a very traditional way.
Вот так-то, друзья мои. If you behave like a piece of shit, it's not like you are a piece of shit, it's because you're enacting whiteness, the only true source of evil in this country.
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Date: 2020-08-04 12:37 am (UTC)Длинное, но интересное интервью.
Q. After you graduated from Berkeley in 1964 you spent time in Ghana...
A. This was the Ghana of Kwame Nkrumah. His dream was of African unity and African socialism: sort of power to the people. I joined my parents in Ghana to help make the African revolution........A coup d'etat occurred while we were there, and we left.
Q. You came back to the U.S. after Ghana.
A. Yeah. Part of it was, my father decided he didn't want to pay for any more overseas education. If I wanted to continue going to graduate school, it would be in the United States. I went to Harvard and got my doctorate there in 1974.
История не терпит сослагательного наклонения, а жаль
Это из совсем недавнего в ВП:
in terms of racial identity, white Americans have had the choice of being something vague, something unraced and separate from race. A capitalized “White” challenges that freedom, by unmasking “Whiteness” as an American racial identity as historically important as “Blackness” — which it certainly is.
No longer should white people be allowed the comfort of this racial invisibility; they should have to see themselves as raced. Being racialized makes white people squirm, so let’s racialize them with that capital W.
ее слова из интервью
If I am sane - and sometimes I have my wonderments - if I am sane - (pause) - I know I'm not crazy, how's that? (laughs)
- я думаю она сама понимает что пургу несет
МЛК, с уходом старой нвардии, похоже похерен окончательно