Tag: White culture

Segregation is de jure, not de facto: Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law

Tags Reviews, segregation, White culture11/16/20214 Comments

"The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,"by Richard Rothstein (2017)

Sasha Bley-Vroman reviews Richard Rothstein’s 2017 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America in the October 2021 issue of Western Friend.

Beginning with the statement, “The GI Bill was a White guy thing,” Bley-Vroman tells us:

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OMGWM Part 3: Teased post-polio sissy

Tags fear, practice, White culture08/22/20212 Comments

Mike Shell

"Frankfurt am Main - African refugees rallying for the right to stay in Germany" [Demo für Bleiberecht, Bahnhofsviertel], by Picturepest on flickr (1/1/2000)

I encourage readers to give full attention to the footnotes. I have used a reference librarian’s “due diligence” to offer relevant background information throughout this article.

- Part 1 – Old middle-class gay white man
- Part 2 –”Whiteness” as a class thing
- Part 3 – Teased post-polio sissy

It astonishes me sometimes—no, often—how every person I get to know—
everyone, regardless of everything, by which

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OMGWM Part 2: “Whiteness” as a class thing

Tags class, practice, White culture07/14/20218 Comments

Mike Shell

"The Teff Harvest, Northern Ethiopia," by A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest [Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons]

Introduction: In Part 1, I wrote about growing up oblivious to the “white cultural mindset which is my default setting.” There is much more to this than most of us realize.

I encourage readers to give full attention to the footnotes. I have used a reference librarian’s “due diligence” to offer relevant background information throughout this article.

- Part 1 – Old middle-class gay white man
- Part 2 –”Whiteness” as a class

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Old middle-class gay white man: Part 1

Tags boundaries, practice, White culture07/09/20215 Comments

Mike Shell

Note: I encourage readers to give full attention to the footnotes. I have used a reference librarian’s “due diligence” to offer relevant background information throughout this article.

Part 1 – Old middle-class gay white man
Part 2 –”Whiteness” as a class thing
Part 3 – Teased post-polio sissy

My life began in a liberal 1950s Ohio preacher’s family. When I was 10, Dad moved us to Boston so he could earn a doctorate

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Ethan Hawke on John Brown and white guilt

Tags Ethan Hawke, James McBride, John Brown (abolitionist), White culture06/29/20212 Comments

Mike Shell

Excerpts from “The Shape-Shifter: The Protean Career of Ethan Hawke,” by John Lahr in The New Yorker (9/21/2020, pp.44-5) [behind the paywall].

“Black people didn’t need saving.
The affluent white communities were the ones living in sin.”

In 2013, James McBride, author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung, published The Good Lord Bird, the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade

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