Félicien BretonJan 26, 2023
"Race-making: the process by which communities define their in and out groups and develop justifications for and enforcement mechanism for maintaining these distinctions. Race-making institutionalizes ethnic and/or class prejudices along "natural" criteria."
— Rebecca Futo Kennedy @kataplexis in her excellent glossary of terms for teaching about #race, #ethnicity, and #identity in #antiquity: https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2021/12/talking-about-race-and-ethnicity-in.html #racism #West #Western #Classics #sociology #anthropology
Talking about Race and Ethnicity in Greco-Roman Antiquity

A couple of years ago, I gave a talk that was the seed of a book I am now in the process of finishing up discussing whether or not we can ta...

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"In terms of racial identity, white #Americans have had the choice of being something vague, something unraced and separate from race. A capitalized "White" challenges that freedom, by unmasking #Whiteness as an #American racial #identity as historically important as "Blackness" — which it certainly is."
— #NellIrvinPainter: https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/nell-irvin-painter-why-white-should-be-capitalized-too #entitlement #bias #whiteSupremacy #coloniality #decolonial #racism #antiRacism #sociology #raceMaking #racism #USA #USPol #quotes #militancy 🧶
Nell Irvin Painter: Why 'White' should be capitalized, too

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West Central Tribune
Feb 13, 2023 at 8:31pmWeb
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@breton

Just finished reading her awesome book The History of White People!

Show threadFélicien BretonFeb 14, 2024

@FallsMom
Her book is so important!

You may enjoy more from historian Nell Irvin Painter from there: http://www.nellpainter.com/history.html 👍🏽

#NellIrvinPainter #history #whiteSupremacy #coloniality #decolonial #racism #antiRacism #sociology #raceMaking #whiteness #entitlement #racialisation

Nell Irvin Painter, Historian

Nell Irvin Painter is a leading historian of the United States. She has a second career as an artist after retirement from Princeton University as Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita. This site celebrates both Nell Irvin Painter's careers, presenting her seven books, links to interviews and other resources, and her art and activities in the art world.

Show threadFélicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Sep 6, 2025

"Solidarity can not truly exist until non-white people see the ways they are complicit with and benefit from silencing Black voices, narrowing Black narratives and ultimately denying Black realities. As non-white people, we are used to gauging ourselves in terms of our proximity to whiteness."

Jordan Howard: https://archive.is/RGn55

#collaboration #identity #complicity #bias #whiteSupremacy #coloniality #decolonial #racism #antiRacism #sociology #raceMaking #USA #USPol #quotes #militancy #whiteness