Posted on 08/28/2005 2:37:52 PM PDT by Crackingham
Montgomery College in Maryland is offering a course on the unbearable lightness of being white. Whiteness Studies is intended to stimulate reflection and research into how people "become white." Please, no Michael Jackson jokes. Please.
"Course participants will look at changing definitions of 'White' or 'Caucasian' over time; examine how people learn the norms, behaviors, and roles of this status; and address tensions of those who feel 'forced to choose' one label or another."
The teacher will be the school's program director of diversity management -- Laura M. White. Yes, White. Her training includes "white privilege" conferences and one titled "What White People Can Do About Racism."
"It is about looking objectively on how whiteness is imposed on you and then how to deal with it," Ms. White said. As opposed to looking subjectively on how it is imposed. Or something.
"Colleges and universities are moving to infuse the entire curriculum with multicultural perspectives," White said. Math and science included.
Look for kinder and gentler integers and isotopes that celebrate diversity. The course probably will reference antebellum terms like quadroon, octoroon and maybe even sextupleoon. Black Irish, too.
But there is so much more to being what we white people call "white." As the course description reminds us, whiteness can be viewed as a powerful social and legal construct put in place over centuries to provide access and leverage for opportunities. It's often taught and reinforced nonverbally and through subtle sanctions for going outside "the rules."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
What can I say?
I'm not proud.
Or tired.
;-)
College is 20% education and 80% indoctrination.
Yep, it's the old 80/20 rule again.
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It's about sales in the foreign markets. The investors want to see potential ROI numbers that are based in reality. Usually 'foreign' means 40-55% of revenues for a film. In the foreign sales world BM/BF is death unless you've got Denzel who will not romance a white woman on screen. Foreign will go for BM/WF but the US market won't (contrary to certain "statistics" touted on this thread). That leaves BM/Latina combos.
As for WM/BF that is so verbotten in the USA that Mendez, Cruz, Lopez, etc get all the work they want as the not-black/not-white love interest to WMs.
wasn't so full of it after all was I?
Not Mr. Ex, thankfully. 6'2, 190lbs, shaved head, goatee-wearing former Marine. He's ALL man, baby. :) LOL
why the shaved head?
I pity those who have less than half a dozen heritages to reflect on. What terribly empty lives they must lead.
Former Marine :-)
Ya okay pal. I'll reflect on that for a while...
That was based on a set of truly profound physiological differences between them and other groups.
Your lil' buddy Eur-am couldn't believe he could be written out of "whiteness" so readily!
You jumped on here praising the "truth" in a post so bigoted and ugly that it got pulled. People object to your support for the bigotry and how do you respond...you shout or play the widdle victim...
To quote you: "because I'm here alone, laying out a grievance, I'm the shame full one."
Poor baby. I feel for you, really. Must be hard to go through life seeing all kinds of insults to your manhood from television commercials.
Shout all you like sparky, like a couple of others here I'm not listening anymore.
"self hating is kind of sad"
True,and the real irony is that most of those dissing the dark skinned girls are dark skinned THEMSELVES!
To proof to my whole argument is in the pudding wtc911. My original question was why the need for interracial programing/advertising. You answered it quite eloquently to Clemenza...it matters not the truth, it matters for ratings. You're unbelievable. You people beat on the left for doing it with the news, and here you are doing it with facts of history. Shame on you and I hope all here see this for what it became.
Am I proud of the way I conducted myself at times on this thread?...no. What I am proud of is I got my message out loud and clear with your's, and some others help. Stop fabricating truth for your own or society's "benefit". Tell the truth for society's benefit. You'll be respected for doing so.
Calling me names and putting me down was the easy part. wiping the egg off your face make take a few more tissues...
"I dated several black guys befire I got married"
You dated WHOM?Oh,my God,exnavychick.How COULD you?You have forever scorned the dignity of the Great White Race!
Or so a couple of fools on this board would have you think!
Because he's always uncomfortably hot, and he's going grey prematurely. (He's 31)
I like it. *wink* But I like him with hair, too.
Well, thankfully, I didn't choose my dates based on someone else's criteria! :) LOL
I feel ya,girl!
Sit-rep is an anachronism.I grew up with folks like that.There are ALWAYS other agendas and issues behind their"truthtelling".
Cohoctah....NOT Howell.
And he's been dead for 15 years!
WHAT??? ....cityfolk.
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