WHITENESS STUDIES: HATING WHITEY 101 -- Coming Soon To A College Campus Near You!

ICONOCLAST ^ | by Denis Schulz

[BurkesLaw]

Jeff Hitchcock is co-founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of White Culture. A super-patriot wrapped in the American flag, perhaps? Naw. Not Jeff. He doesn't like white people -- in fact, he despises them, and there's not much he likes about the US-of-A either -- except for 9/11, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the San Francisco earthquakes.

You see -- Jeff is a hater. Strom Thurmond, at his worst, couldn't hold a candle to him......

[BurkesLaw]

Hey, now that's what a degree from Harvard or Yale stands for these days -- having studied Whiteness Studies, Woman's Studies, Black Studies, Pop Culture 202, and Post-Colonialism. Worth forty-thousand dollars an undergraduate year, no doubt about it!

[Maelstrom]

Strom Thurmond isn't a hater...

...maybe the guy was thinking of Byrd.

[arasina]

I think I'll return to college and get my degree in "Studies Studies."

[A_perfect_lady]

I think I'll return to college and get my degree in "Studies Studies."

You can do that! It's actually called "University Studies," but whatever.

[AAABEST]

Funny how discriminatory America accommodates all of this crap. We have actually classroom instruction on black studies, female studies, hispanic studies, hate-whitey studies whatever. Sanctioned official study encouraging balkenization and promotig hatred. Does anynoe know of a "white studies" program anywhere, where the participants are taught the unique qualities or their race and how they should be proud of who they are? What about a male studies course?

Truth is you won't find such anywhere, and if anyone got any bright ideas of starting either, they'd be sued, expelled or possibly even arrested.

Equal justice under the law is DEAD, the supreme court will back me up on this. If you're not a member of one of the selected minorities (not all minorities can participate, only selected "majority" minorities are chosen) YOU DON'T COUNT.

[jordan8]

Advocacy of genocide subsidized by tax dollars. Gas chambers and killing fields are the only possible end result of this, the INTENDED result.

[Fast5]

The Indians of the North Americas and the White Americans should be 1st and foremost.

[freekitty]

I see the sickness has finally taken over.

[muir_redwoods]

Here's my list of dead white males I am proud of. See how many people who aren't White males you can find that fairly compare to these.

daVinci

Michaelangelo

Bach

Beethoven

John Lennon

Jefferson

Cervantes

Shakespeare

Socrates

Aristotle

Pythagoras

Newton

Einstein

Washington

Locke

Adam Smith

Actually this list goes on for quite a while. The point is that I don't think there is any limit to what any female or non-white male can accomplish in the realm of human endeavor but I really take issue with the mental fragments who belittle white males. We white males have actually accomplished quite a bit and if you think it is because we had so many advantages in our respective cultures, please note. The list above contains people who were discriminated against, subject to genocidal threats, exiled, shot at, mistreated, slandered, murdered, executed and Beethoven was deaf!

[G.Mason]

Jeff Hitchcock, a white person who wishes he was born black.

Ho hum........

[Eala]

Why was the article excerpted?

[Maceman]

From my alma mater (State University of New York at Cortland):

A Selected Sample of Whiteness Studies Sources

These texts focus on white people's misunderstanding of whiteness and erasure of race in one category: white.

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Alcoff, Linda. "What Should White People Do?" Hypatia 13: 3 (1998): 6-25.

duCille, Anne." The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies" in Joeres and Laslett, 70-108. Fine, Michelle, et. al, eds.. off white: Readings on Race, Power and Society. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Fiskin, Shirley Fisher. "Interrogating ‘Whiteness,’ Complicating ‘Blackness’: Remapping American Culture." American Quarterly 47:3 (Sept 1995): 428-66.

Frankenberg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Garvey, John, ed. Race Traitor. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940. New York: Random House, 1999.

hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992.

Joeres Ruth-Ellen and Barbara Laslett, eds. The Second Signs Reader: Feminist Scholarship, 1983-1996. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

Jordan, Shirley, ed. Broken Silences: Interviews with Black and White Women Writers. New Brunswick, N.J., 1993.

Keating, AnnLouise. "Interrogating ‘Whiteness,’ (De)Constructing ‘Race’." College English 57 (1995): 901-918.

Kincheloe, Joe. "The Struggle to Define and Reinvent Whiteness: a pedagogical analysis. College Literature 26: 3 (1999): 162-94.

Kincheloe, Joe, et. al. eds. White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America. St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1996.

Lipsitz, George.The Possessive Investment in Whiteness : How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Temple Univ. Press, 1998.

McIntosh.Peggy. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondances Through Work in Women's Studies." In Race, Class, and Gender. Eds.Anderson and Hill Collins, eds. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1997.

Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell Univ Press, 1997.

Mills, Charles W. Blackness Visible : Essays on Philosophy and Race

Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness. London: Verso Press, 1991.

Smith, Valerie. Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings. New York: Routledge, 1998.Ware, Vron. Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History. London: Verso, 1992.

Wing, Adrien Katherine, Ed.. Critical Race Feminism: A Reader(Critical America Series) New York Univ Press, 1996.

This resource was contributed by Victoria Boynton.

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[daddypatriot]

I would never consider Strom Thurmond a hater. True, he began life as a segregationist but he was molded in that respect by the times in which his life began. He became one of the most ardent supporters of equal opportunity in this state and we much admired him for it. As for Jeff Hitchcock and others with a hatred of whites let us remind him that it was the white male who designed all of the marvels that run today's world. Take the white male out of the picture and the world would soon collapse into chaos. History is our best teacher in this regard, and, as the old saying goes, only fools disregard the lesson of history. By the way, if I had a child in college and he or she told me they were going to take a "whiteness" course my financial support would be withdrawn immediately. In other words, screw the worthless bastards who foist this obscenity on the education system.

[Mark17]

Bump

[staytrue]

Science, technology, capitalism, and democracy are just some of the gifts Whiteness has given the world.

If the greeks are considered white enough (they are actually a little on the dark side), I think I can agree with democracy. But to say that science, technology, and capitalism are exclusively white is a little absurd and really casts a pall on the rest of the author's arguments. I hate to say the author is a racist, but his words make me think it is a real possibility.

[Bogolyubski]

It gets even worse than this. Noel Ignatiev, a "white studies" prof. at Harvard, openly advocates genocide against whites - the "abolition of the white race" to use his own term. He has plenty of supporters in LaRaza, Nation of Islam, MEChA, etc. After last week's supreme court ruling declaring that whites (among others) are no longer eligible for equal protection under the law, we can all look forward to an even greater expansion of this sort of wickedness.

[longtermmemmory]

The whintess studies authors are upset that the people of "european" decent are not more balkanized. We say we are americans who are italian, irish, scotish, english, french, german, greek, polish, or swiss etc BUT we do not hang our hat on using that. They are upset that we do not use that as a chip on our shoulder as blacks use race.

Its a complaint on the lack of victimology.

BTW greeks on the dark side? The entire mediteranean is a bit on the dark side from the life in the sun. You could say the same thing about italians, or french. BTW in greece you are never more than 70 miles from a beach. Closer if you are on one of the hundreds of islands.

[Justa]

Marxism Alert.

[bootless]

That's an interesting website - so far they've blasted the ALA, the New York Times, and the poverty chic liberals who would come to the Slum Theme Park built by Habitat for Humanity. Not bad for a day's work! (Still working on the page...)

[GatekeeperBookman]

http://aztlan.net/whoweare.htm