Good column that gets at some of my skepticism a/b "whiteness" as a term that really explains anything http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/what-is-whiteness.html …
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@jessesingal I also like the article and her book sounds interesting, but can you elaborate on what you mean?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@l_l_xu them at the moment. Have seen folks use it to explain Kim DaviS and Dylann Roof and on-air killer (when Deray thought the 2/n1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@l_l_xu perp was white. I don't think any one umbrella concept can offer meaningful explanatory power over such different events 3/31 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@l_l_xu though I should acknowledge I cam skeptical of a lot of crit theory language in general in terms of its real world applicability1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@jessesingal Huh, I had no idea it was being so widely applied. It's a really interesting racial category though (as are they all)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jessesingal The idea of "whiteness" indeed becomes weird when you see Caucasian-looking people outside of the U.S./Europe/their offshoots1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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