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Early Access: Whiteness: WTF?
🕑 Added 2020-06-21 16:45:15 +0000 UTCHello all!
Attached is the Early Access link to the latest episode of What the Theory!
With the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and across the world in response to ongoing violence against Black people by US Police Officers, I was keen to make something that engaged theoretically with racism and anti-Blackness.
This, then, is an overview of whiteness and the ways in which Anglo-American society (at the very least) works to frame whiteness as "the default" or "the norm".
I take a brief look at some of the more "pop sociology" frameworks surrounding whiteness such as Peggy McIntosh's notion of White Privilege and Robin Diangelo's notion of White Fragility before looking at Charles W. Mills' alternative concept of White Supremacy.
I hope you find it interesting in some small way! Let me know what you think!
Tom
Comments
Tom Nicholas
I don't at the moment. I did have plans to touch on the CRT moral panic at the moment but we've never got round to actually making that video!
Rosemary Campbell-Stephens
Do you have any plans to do anything similar on eugenics and /or Critical Race Theory?
Tom Nicholas
Hiya Rosemary! Sorry for taking a few days to reply—I've been really busy this week! And thanks for your kind words about the video. I'm really glad you've found it useful in your trainings!
Rosemary Campbell-Stephens
Hi Tom, this video is excellent. I have been using segments of it, fully credited to you in training that I have been doing at the anti-racist decolonising end of the spectrum. I absolutely love your work. Thank you for all you do.
