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 ...
I stopped watching TV years ago.
Nothing but trash piled up on top of trash. TV is trashy...and getting trashier.
I'm off for the night. My eyes and fingers need a rest. All the Katrina coverage I'll be taking in with be by the TV.
I figure it must be made with yogurt....
:-)
There is a lot to be said about getting married, but who has the nerve?
Damn glad to hear it!
Tomorrow I am pitching a film and TV series based on the life and family of a 50 year old US Army Chaplain. (personally researched at Benning, Drum, Korea and Kosovo and through interaction with Padres serving in Iraq and Afghanistan...throw in some input from a freeper who was 56 Alpha). We have a well known Black actor for the lead. I want to cast a white woman as his wife but no, not gonna happen. I can go Latina or mixed but not white (even though it would open up a season full of story lines). Bottom line is that the "reality" that so offends sit-rep (who states that statistically 75% of what we see does jam it down our cables) and company doesn't exist with the rare exception of a Britney Spears MTV video and, so what, that's part of life.
check the context....i'm not blind
Why Latina? Why not Asian? Is it because many Latinas (Puerto Ricans and Dominicans) are mixed race?
I think most men under 35 are ambiguous...sadly
i know..i know...FR is fulla John Waynes under 35..lol
Ambiguosly what? I'M ALL MAN! Especially when I go out on the weekends in my leather jacket and tight leather pants, with a yellow handkerchief hanging out the back pocket. It drives the guys, er, girls crazy!
Since you're so lame into starting this crap again, I want to ask you now that all yuour flagins are present...
Did this Chaplain have a white wife and he was Black? If so, it's a true story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you're changing the ethnicity of the players, then you're a fake and you'tre doing it to fit in with the cultural milk shake crowd.
You came out with some respect in my eyes, after your last post, you lost all you had.
Again, what problem do you have with the "cultural milk shake" crowd? I know that parts of Michigan are still stuck in 1961 (as are certain parts of suburban NYC) in terms of racial attitudes (goes for blacks as well as whites, Arabs, etc.) but you are getting ridiculous.
I don't think he understood my use of the term "ambiguous."
If that buffoon is now going to cancel his plans for a true story because of me, he's a buffoon!
Now, If his intention was to fabricate an Interracial marriages, I must spit. Why, because it is a lie~!
actually....I thought it was a good question.
For truth?
Or effect?
what effect?
I know what Madison Ave's is....sameness.
Young men pay a lot more attention to fashion than I did...or do.
and aside from thugs, they seem sorta meek....like maybe they are Details copy-editors or something
Well?
He may be bitching, but I know a lot of fellas who would be perfectly happy with all the Eva Mendez they could get.
lol. Ohhhhhh, just when I thought it wasn't going to get worse... :-)
Yo tambien....Eva Mendes is hot.
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