Doing Whiteness

do/ng/whte/nss | verb
A material or ideological way of being white
"Currently, the academic scene has witnessed a flurry of scholarship surrounding
as a social and political identity. The multitude of these research pages attempt to
play out what it means to claim the racial category white and what implications
that the cultural category renders within our collective social world. However, much
of the work done in cultural studies tries to analyze whiteness in the abstract,
ignoring bodies and individuals who live within the world.
What implications does claiming the racial category
white come with?

- Being the majority

- Being wealthy

- Always having the upper hand

- What do you think?

This video shows an example of what Mr. Warren is comparing between claiming a
specific race and how society implies how we identify with whatever race we
choose.

Mixed woman claiming her preferred race

Lets talk about the video
Why do you think this was so easy for her to do?

What do you think made her choose to disown her mother?

What would you do if this was your daughter?

 Are the words insidious, superior, or terrible, false
generalizations of people who identify as being
white?

Why or why not?

As an individual, what do you think of when you hear the term white person?
How does having an implicit bias of whitness affect
society?
Implicit bias are defined as bias as a judgment or behavior that results from
cognitive processes.
 Why do YOU think doing
whiteness is such a hot topic
with scholars?