The embracing of this man as white was such an odd cultural moment. The narrative on both sides trumped the obvious.pic.twitter.com/j0bh2lLSft
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The embracing of this man as white was such an odd cultural moment. The narrative on both sides trumped the obvious.pic.twitter.com/j0bh2lLSft
@mat_johnson Sure whiteness is always relational, not absolute. Zimmerman is white in contrast to Martin.
@mat_johnson @HeerJeet So there are no whites now. Just relative whites. And relative Asians and...
@SubBeck @mat_johnson Whiteness is a fiction. Read, among others, Painter's A History of White People.
@HeerJeet @mat_johnson How about Asianness and Blackness?
@SubBeck @mat_johnson "Asianness" (which extends from Israel to Hawaii) seems like obvious BS concept.
@SubBeck @mat_johnson Blackness has a negative existence via shared experience of racism (as Jewishness shaped by anti-Semitism).
@HeerJeet @mat_johnson but you are speaking sociologically now, of course.
@SubBeck @mat_johnson Right.
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