Talk: Abolishing Whiteness and White Supremacy: Structure and Agency [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: Presentations/Discussions
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Monday, May 24, 20211:00pm CDT – 2:00pm EDT
Melanie Bush & Carl Davidson
It is blatantly apparent that the mobilization of white supremacists is (and has been) intensifying in the United States. This movement was birthed with the founding of the modern world and U.S. nation, took further root during the 1960s uprisings and rebellions, then reinforced in the “backlash” of Reaganonmics and pushback against “diversity” efforts. At the turn of the 21st century, this right-wing terrorist movement was reinforced through the infiltration of the police and military, and core institutions of US society. This has always occurred with parallel political, economic and social phenomena that further dispossess and violently impact communities of color, especially Black and Indigenous given their particular history within US nationhood.
Given this history and contemporary reality, in this discussion, we ask: What is whiteness? Is it as DuBois said, “a public and psychological wage” or “the ownership of the earth forever and ever”? As a socially prescribed identity, it is clearly more than a skin color. That identification can be accepted as a self identity or resisted in spite of other’s perceptions and treatment…
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