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>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.
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>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