Tag archives for whiteness
A Meme
category: Things General
Racist chants at high school basketball tournament
This, here, is what I am talking about. According to the story, the cheering coming from the Alamo Heights High School (a predominately white school in an affluent part of Houston) took a decidedly racist tone as the boys’s basketball team secured its win over over San Antonio’s Edison High School boys’ basketball team. Edison High School is a predominantly [...]
category: Things General
I swear I’m straight…except for the gay sex part
New York state is the latest–and largest–state to recognize the right of gays and lesbians to marry. By all means, this is good news as everyone who wishes to marry should be allowed to, and in every state in the U.S. However, the manner by which proponents of gay marriage have gone about gaining greater [...]
category: Things Critical, Things Rhetorical
On the Social Construction of Whiteness
The History of White People Painter, Nell Irvin. Norton: 2011
category: Things General