“The ‘authenticity’ that Trump’s followers so admire is factually wrong and morally repulsive”
If racial injustice is considered to be monolithic and unchanging—omitting the context of individual...
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“For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught”
For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught. If you focus insistently...
“’Working class’…once suggested productivity and sturdiness. Now it means downwardly mobile, poor, even pathological”
…the “white working class.” At first, the term sounds more neutral than its predecessors—a...
“Telling someone to ‘check their privilege’ can be a means to discredit different opinions merely because people who express them belong to a certain racial category”
“White privilege” is too broad a term. It lumps a white Walmart employee with...
“In a cardigan or a crew neck, this model is just another model. In the hoodie, he is a folk demon and a scapegoat, a political symbol and a moving target…”
In a cardigan or a crew neck, this model is just another model. In...
“It’s…odd that ‘bro’ has become a culturally white designation”
It’s…odd that “bro” has become a culturally white designation. The word has roots both...
“Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the country, you might still, if you look hard enough, detect tendrils of Southern influence that extend past the Mason-Dixon Line”
Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the...
“It’s time for us to opt out of the racist paradigm because we are Jews”
…I call upon us all this year to reject our own self-labelling as white....
“Everyone loves to talk about blackness, a fascinating thing. But bring up whiteness and fewer people want to talk about it”
Everyone loves to talk about blackness, a fascinating thing. But bring up whiteness and...