JF

This is "dismantling whiteness" in practice. Soon, K-12 schools will teach majority POC classes that the new locus of American national unity is the POC nation overcoming the remaining influence of Trumpian whiteness

The rapidity with which Princeton successfully engineered its POC majority points to how this can be done nationally -- you make whiteness a toxic identification that limits opportunity but then let whites flow easily through self-identification out of whiteness

It's the obverse of the process that "whiteness studies" scholars claim manufactured whiteness out of distinct European ethnicities in the first place (it amounted to a single generation of intermarriage in mid-century) and at least in the domain they control, it's working

This of course leaves the rump of Trumpian whites who lack the emotional and rhetorical lability to play the new game of race and gender fluidity in an increasingly isolated situation; as they lash out in rage, they will further delegitimize themselves

And create pretexts for the continuation of the agonistic process through which the new American nation emerges in opposition to the legacy one -- it may well involve a domestic war on terror as the rump turns violent

It has been remarkable to watch this process evolve and reveal its contours; the new admissions policies are a key inflection point is showing us what's happening.

People compare racially mixed America to Brazil, but in Brazil white purity is valued at the top of society, while we are deliberately engineering an elite where being mixed will be valued and selected for by its elite gatekeeping institutions

Asian who are POC in some contexts and not POC in other contexts -- and heavily overrepresented in the elite -- hold the balance in a certain way, though there are no at present no leaders to execute or thinkers to articulate what that role can be