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Nitsuh Abebe: "white" (a grammar)
Nitsuh Abebe: "white" (a grammar)
The ability to use “white” to mean “middle-class” to such an overwhelming extent that you actually start to misidentify people—all so that race itself, not class or background or culture or manner, can still remain the difference, the Other. There’s an odd habit here.
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Nitsuh Abebe: "white" (a grammar)
Alex Pappademas: Ninja: A Short History of a Less Troublesome Word (Grantland)
Alex Pappademas: Ninja: A Short History of a Less Troublesome Word (Grantland)
On Katy Perry covering ‘N***** in Paris’. The dumb, tee-hee transgression of saying the edited-for-television version sort of obscures what’s interesting and daring about this performance, which is that under the guise of tribute/ironic cover tune (it feels about half-and-half) it’s a girl refusing to let this song’s imaginary world of swinging-dick privilege be off-limits to her. But that’s all that’s happening here; she puts the word on like a piece of borrowed jewelry and parades in front of the mirror.
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Alex Pappademas: Ninja: A Short History of a Less Troublesome Word (Grantland)