On 2/26/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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."
Does whiteness refer to ethnicity not race in whiteness studies? I
doubt it. Whiteness studies calls upon people to study the invention
of race, especially the invention of the white race, and learn about
how self-identification with that identity has served the ruling
class, against the interests of those who so identity. Among the most
notable theorists of this is Theodore W. Allen:
<http://clogic.eserver.org/1-2/allen.html>
Summary of the Argument of
The Invention of the White Race1
by its author, Theodore W. Allen
--
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
<http://mrzine.org>
<http://monthlyreview.org/>
