Don't ya love it. Racist, Southern white whiners, take courage from Univ. of Virginia, "whiteness studies" academics, see last link below. Did Matt Wray and Jewelle Newitz, (using my memory here) of the Bad Subjects crew at Cal Berkeley who wrote a book on "White Trash" culture think that work like theirs and this stuff from U.VA. could be used by folks whose racial politics are shall we say not exactly progressive. And isn't a weakness of "identity politics" and multiculturalism in it's uncritical varients in the academy (and the corporate and non-profit sectors as well) that other groups in the pluralist playground demand the same recognition of their aggrieved status, even those, like white Southerners, that even though I'd guess work at crappy jobs pulling feathers off of chickens alongside Haitians and Blacks and other racial and national groups, still retain that "white skin priviledge" with all its material, political and ideological advantages.
If anyone knows Michael Omi or Howard Winant, who wrote that great book, ' "Racial Formation in the U.S.," expanded from articles in Socialist Review (when that was a great magazine in the 70's), wonder what category they would put these jokers with their ,"Look how Hollywood Liberal Elitists make jokes about us!" Think Omi and Winant have four constructs for the various racial projects of the various political/cultural blocs. Liberal integrationist, New Right, Neo-Con (cousin to liberal integ.?) and Far Right. Not that there isn't some overlap and slippage, since they seem to be Weberian "ideal types" but if this "anti-defamation" movement of white folk gets bigger than I've been led to believe, some monitoring and organizing against the whole Neo-confederate, League of the South, Southern Party, etc. might be in order. (Hopefully, I'm not indulging that habit pointed out by Lenny Bruce when he said , "A liberal will buy anything that a bigot puts out!"- only in order to not let liberalism off the hook as when the danger of a marginal far right is invoked [or the near-far right of Dick Armey, DeLay, Dole, Bush, etc.] to get left-liberals back into the Democratic party fold. ......................................................................... Southern Anti-Bigotry Coalition Links
http://www.dixiecaust.org/ Dixiecaust seeks to promote awareness about the Dixiecaust and continuing threats to Southern Culture, to bring those guilty of past and present Ethnocrimes against the South to justice, and to secure compensation for the descendants of the victims of Northern aggression.
http://www.dixienet.org/dnframeset.html League of the South National Site: This web site carries summaries of many heritage violations occuring across the South.
http://www.palmetto.org/ League of the South, South Carolina: This web site has an extensive heritage violation section, with in-depth coverage of the fight against South bashing across the region. . http://207.15.178.1/slrc/bod.htm (Kirk Lyons, of the SLRC, has represented Klan and neo-Nazis, note-Michael P.) Southern Legal Resource Center: First the liberal/minority bigots came after our flag and then our monuments. Now, Southern children are being expelled for having pictures of Generals Lee and Jackson on their shirts. They are a nonprofit legal foundation waging a counter-offensive to preserve Southern Heritage. The web site contains information for anyone concerned with preserving Southern Heritage, from the merely interested, to those under attack by South bashers, to the attorneys fighting to stop these abuses.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA97/price/open.htm White Trash: The Construction of an American Scapegoat: Very interesting and scholarly site from the University of Virginia. Here is what the site introduction says: "Equality is simultaneously the greatest accomplishment and worst failure of America. It is the place where idealism and reality come to blows in American culture. Despite the glossy veneer of "political correctness" which has been painted over the rust and corrosion of centuries of racism and classism, the enduring American necessity for a social "other" has chosen working class whites as the focal scapegoat of our time. This site explores the general treatment of working class whites in the media -- comics, literature, film and television; dealing in depth with the areas of religion, race relations, work and lifestyle in defining working class whites as a unique social culture." If you know of a web site that promotes fair treatment of Southerners, please let us know. Email to addlink at bigotwatch.org
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