Yeah it's true. There are all kinds of subtle ways we enforce the belief in race through our words and stereotypes. And I mean, statistically there are differences between various ancestries. It's the ascribing of meaning to those differences where we run into trouble.
As for an internal sense of identity, I really hate that concept as ap…
Yeah it's true. There are all kinds of subtle ways we enforce the belief in race through our words and stereotypes. And I mean, statistically there are differences between various ancestries. It's the ascribing of meaning to those differences where we run into trouble.
As for an internal sense of identity, I really hate that concept as applied to race or gender or anything else. I can't make any sense of it, and indeed think it's a prime example of "racecraft" (or gender stereotyping). There's no such thing as "feeling black" unless you limit blackness to a box of certain allowed things and go from there. It's crazy to me that some black people so eagerly embrace this idea.
Looking forward to hearing the cases they make for this.
Yeah, the marxists (like the Fields and Adolph Reed) are big on their analytical categories and the historical and capitalist why of race, they call it ascriptive identity category, like you mentioned. I think their work is the key to undoing a lot of this antiracism mess, as they show why its so popular, it serves neoliberalism
it should also be noted, MLK was moving in this direction, in 68, talking about redistributive economics as the way to deal with inequality amongst blacks. So, we come back around to Kingian politics and takes as ultimately being more radical really, than nationalist takes.
Yeah it's true. There are all kinds of subtle ways we enforce the belief in race through our words and stereotypes. And I mean, statistically there are differences between various ancestries. It's the ascribing of meaning to those differences where we run into trouble.
As for an internal sense of identity, I really hate that concept as applied to race or gender or anything else. I can't make any sense of it, and indeed think it's a prime example of "racecraft" (or gender stereotyping). There's no such thing as "feeling black" unless you limit blackness to a box of certain allowed things and go from there. It's crazy to me that some black people so eagerly embrace this idea.
Looking forward to hearing the cases they make for this.
Yeah, the marxists (like the Fields and Adolph Reed) are big on their analytical categories and the historical and capitalist why of race, they call it ascriptive identity category, like you mentioned. I think their work is the key to undoing a lot of this antiracism mess, as they show why its so popular, it serves neoliberalism
it should also be noted, MLK was moving in this direction, in 68, talking about redistributive economics as the way to deal with inequality amongst blacks. So, we come back around to Kingian politics and takes as ultimately being more radical really, than nationalist takes.