White Issue

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The White Issue: Blond Lust

“Once a privileged sign of white femininity, ‘blondness’ is now simply a sign of the freedom of choice.”

by Teresa Podlesney

Originally published: May 18, 1993

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The White Issue: White Sex

“As in: white people and how they fuck and is there anything to it.”

by Susie Bright

Originally published: May 18, 1993

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The White Issue: Whiteness – A Glossary

Whiteness is invisible, empty of content, a conceptual black hole to be found Herewith, a guide to help fill in the blanc.

by Eric Lott

Originally published: May 18, 1993

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The White Issue: White Fright

“We now have three key white modes of dealing with multiracial America — offense, defense, and self-abasement.”

by Micaela DiLeonardo

Originally published: May 18, 1993

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The White Issue: Mama’s White

“My mother is white. And I am black. This is how I choose to define myself and this is how America chooses to define me. I have no regrets about my racial classification other than to lament, off and on, that classifications exist period.”

by Lisa Jones

Originally published: May 18, 1993

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The White Issue: Smothered by 90210

“Although you might not think so, the phrase ‘white people’ is, in and of itself, a slur against white people.”

by Mim Udovitch

Originally published: May 18, 1993

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The White Issue: “Jews Are Not White”

“…And that those who claim we are and exclude our history and literature from the newly emerging multicultural canon are our oppressors.”

by Michael Lerner

Originally published: May 18, 1993

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The White Issue: Memoirs of a Xenophobic Boyhood

“I suppose that’s the white thing: never having to define what you are, while other people scramble to define themselves in relationship to you.”

by Gary Indiana

Originally published: May 18, 1993

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The White Issue: White Like Who?

“When did whites come into the world? When was the first time that Europeans, faced with otherness, looked at each other and said, ‘We’re white’?”

by Edward Ball

Originally published: May 18, 1993

“Once a privileged sign of white femininity, ‘blondness’ is now simply a sign of the freedom of choice.”

“As in: white people and how they fuck and is there anything to it.”

Whiteness is invisible, empty of content, a conceptual black hole to be found Herewith, a guide to help fill in the blanc.

“We now have three key white modes of dealing with multiracial America — offense, defense, and self­-abasement.”

“My mother is white. And I am black. This is how I choose to define myself and this is how America chooses to define me. I have no regrets about my racial classification other than to lament, off and on, that classifications exist period.”

“Although you might not think so, the phrase ‘white people’ is, in and of itself, a slur against white people.”

“…And that those who claim we are and exclude our history and literature from the newly emerging multicultural canon are our oppressors.”

“I suppose that’s the white thing: never having to define what you are, while other people scramble to define themselves in relationship to you.”

“When did whites come into the world? When was the first time that Europeans, faced with otherness, looked at each other and said, ‘We’re white’?”

“We now have three key white modes of dealing with multiracial America — offense, defense, and self-abasement.”