"Whiteness and the Historical Imagination" - 30 November - NY

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 18 17:06:22 PST 2001


James Heartfield wrote:


>
>I have this uncomfortable feeling that the natural trajectory of the
>academic discourse on 'whiteness' is that someone will start to
>argue that the white identity was not all bad, and that it ought to
>be recuperated. White guilt, white persecution complex, white
>megalomania ... it's just one long slippery slope.
>
>Better to insist upon the universalist goal of an all-embracing
>humanism, I say.

Do you object to the study of the emergence of whiteness? Its maintenance? Of whiteness at all? Of the creation and maintenance of race in general?

Doug



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