Sublime

The concept of whiteness is as much a fabrication as is Latinidad.

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist

Im Nachgang zur Critical Whiteness und im Dienst einer oberflächlichen Diversität orientierten sich Rekrutierungs- und Einstellungsprozesse an einer abenteuerlichen Opferpyramide, die einem postmodernen Ablasswesen gleichkommt: Historische Benachteiligungen bestimmter Gruppen sollen durch Bevorzugungen kompensiert werden. Die neuen Helden des

The White body defines the American body. The White body segregates the Black body from the American body. The White body instructs the Black body to assimilate into the American body. The White body rejects the Black body assimilating into the American body—and history and consciousness duel anew.

White identity is inherently racist; white people do not exist outside the system of white supremacy. This does not mean that we should stop identifying as white and start claiming only to be Italian or Irish. To do so is to deny the reality of racism in the here and now, and this denial would simply be color-blind racism. Rather, I strive to be