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- Title
Memory Work and the Making of White Working-Class and Racial Identities.
- Authors
GIROUX, HENRY
- Abstract
For instance, the working-class Black and White kids from my section of town entered Hope High School though the back door of the building, while the rich White kids entered through the main door in the front of the school. Unsurprisingly, the language of racism has become unapologetically public, emerging at fascist spectacles in which militia and neo-Nazi groups gather in public spaces to openly taunt Jews, LGBTQ events, and teachers and school boards that reject the injection of White bigotry into school curricula and libraries. As Chauncey DeVega notes, "Today's Republican Party is the largest, most powerful and most dangerous White racist organization in the United States - if not the world."[11] It appears that much can be forgiven in a society that increasingly believes in the age of Trumpism that White people are now under attack By black people and that informed judgment and critical education threaten the collective consciousness of young people. The Providence Police once again manifested their racism by raiding the club, taking all the White patrons to jail, and told the club owner they would leave him alone if he did not admit whites.
- Subjects
RACIAL identity of white people; COLLEGE curriculum; SOLIDARITY; COLLECTIVE memory; HUMAN behavior; WORKING class white people; WHITE youth; HATE
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article