>>> furuhashi.1 at osu.edu 03/07/01 09:47AM >>>
>kelley wrote:
>
>>yes, i'm frustrated because trying to talk about structural
>>oppression is like banging your head against the wall and i see the
>>same problems on LBO -- people are much more interested in locating
>>racism solely in the individual, etc. the whole B&K on identity
>>thread was pretty clear evidence of that, to me.
>
>If you say that white workers (and male workers) as a group gain
>from racism (or sexism) - how is that locating racism (or sexism) in
>the individual? It's an advantage gained (if it is) by membership in
>the group, and maintaining the advantage requires maintaining the
>group's identity.
>
>Doug
Do white workers have a "group identity" with "group interests" separable from a racist & anti-working-class abstraction?
Doesn't the act of telling workers that "racism is in the interest of white workers" basically create the racist & anti-working-class abstraction called "the white working class"?
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CB: Since the white workers do not do the hiring and firing, it is the racism of the bosses , who do, that creates discrepancies between white and black employment. The white workers have no "rational" need to be racist themselves. Any advantage can be had by only the bosses being racist.