On 2/26/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You are not familiar with whiteness studies?
in defense of the excessively prolific YF, for the "whiteness" studies, "whiteness" does not refer to race but to ethnicity. For example, the Irish-Americans [i.e., the Irish-USians] went from being "not-white" to "white" at some point around the start of the 20th century as they became socially acceptable to the "true whites" (WASPs). Of course it was only when JFK was elected president in 1960, that they (we) became "truly white." I prefer the way I once described it: "the Irish became Welsh." -- Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
