I Harlow

court fool

The example of our bulldog resoluteness in holding on to a comic situation may be seen when the twenty-second of February draws near,and the shops of our grateful Republic break out into an irruption of little hatchets,by which curious insignia we have chosen to commemorate our first President

The acts themselves, the moments of entering a mall and not getting followed as an elementary example, build on top of those other grains and produce the rock of race, the appearance of something that somehow exists outside of everyday actions.

These are whiteness as an anti-racist practice; how whiteness is promoted in scholarship, film, TV, and other forms of text; how whiteness influences our communicative behaviors; and how whiteness is performed.

The idea of whiteness, much like the idea of my maleness, would force me to ask about how privilege worked in and through my body, even in ways that I couldn't readily see or imagine.

In our third essay, John Warren looks at the issue of "whiteness" in the United States, which he casts as both a form of identity and a social structure. The author begins by explaining four broad categories used by communication scholars to examine whiteness.

Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness