Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:16:52 -0700
From: "Marlene R. Atleo" <maratleo-AT-island.net>
Subject: Re: White mens problems 


It must be the end of July....

and just like any "real" community topics get processed over again from a 
slightly different angle....

I don't remember if there is an archive for this list.... radhika, our list 
host could possibly let us know.....

It just seems to me that topics that have already been discussed on this 
list and which some of us participated in and remember are part of the 
current discussion....
last year this "white stuff" was being discussed under "White is right"....
at that time
"Debra L. Lundberg"  <dllund1-AT-pop.uky.edu>  said:
"...Whiteness as, not a biological trait like skin color, but as a status 
that could be acquired.  There was significant conflation of Irish and 
Black, especially in the British African colonial phase. This had imortant 
consequences for issues  of citizenship, race and class/labor relations, 
especially in anglophillic  U.S. You might want to check out "When the 
Irish Became White" (don't  remember the author), David Roediger's "Wages 
of Whiteness", or Anne McClintock's "Imperial Leather". There's also a 
great article (probably  somewhat dated now) called (I think) "Whiteness as 
Property" in some legal review. ...."

whiteness as property/status - rightness ...and who needs to be "more 
right" than "whites"....



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