Glenn Loury takes a closer look at some of those ancient “white” people and modern “black” people:
The very concept of “race” is a slippery slope.
Glenn Loury: Black and White are not Black-and-White
Glenn Loury takes a closer look at some of those ancient “white” people and modern “black” people:
The very concept of “race” is a slippery slope.
I agree with this. My mother is from a Jamaican family with Scottish, Sephardic, and African ancestry. She identifies as a Westerner, and has a deep respect for English culture. The dream of many young Jamaicans is to go to university in the U.K., and two of my aunts were able to do that.
However, the critical race people say that this attitude is a sickness and a result of Brown people having been colonized by Western culture. (I am guessing they will say this of Glenn Loury, if they have not already.) The Achilles heel in their theory is that they don’t know what to do with shades-of-gray people who don’t fall neatly into their race categories and their oppression politics (like the Greeks and Romans). Unfortunately for them, the world is filling up with unoppressed people of mixed race and mixed identity, who have options as to how they want to identify, and many choose to identify with Western culture. That is a choice, not a pathology.
Love these guys, genius at work. Talk about beating around the bush to get your point across.