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According to Slate, "[t]he prize for the most ethnocentric headline goes to the Times of India for 'Indian-American puts the Senate in balance.'" I told Z., who said, "You mean, 'University of Virginia student puts the Senate in balance'?" Heh.
In slightly Monty Pythonesque news, I watched a VH1 show at the gym yesterday called "Dude, Where's My Ghetto Pass?" whose titles and animation were clear Python ripoffs. It was a fascinating and disturbing look into the social construction and regulation of masculinity (and once in a while, femininity) as mediated by race -- what makes someone "black" or white (you can lose blackness, many of the participants seemed to think, in the sense of authenticity, but white was forever, though fellow traveler status was available). The gender and racial rules were incredibly bound up in one another. And all the time surrounded by this bricolage, not just white American culture appropriating African-American culture as in the text but VH1 appropriating British humor in the visual and aural sequences surrounding the interview excerpts. Surreal.
In slightly Monty Pythonesque news, I watched a VH1 show at the gym yesterday called "Dude, Where's My Ghetto Pass?" whose titles and animation were clear Python ripoffs. It was a fascinating and disturbing look into the social construction and regulation of masculinity (and once in a while, femininity) as mediated by race -- what makes someone "black" or white (you can lose blackness, many of the participants seemed to think, in the sense of authenticity, but white was forever, though fellow traveler status was available). The gender and racial rules were incredibly bound up in one another. And all the time surrounded by this bricolage, not just white American culture appropriating African-American culture as in the text but VH1 appropriating British humor in the visual and aural sequences surrounding the interview excerpts. Surreal.
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Isn't this the reversal from the "one drop" theory of blackness from centuries past! Probably somebody is writing a dissertation about this topic even now.
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Which is fascinating if you know anything about the social construction of whiteness. )Not that I'm an expert, but I know that at one time the Irish, to name one group, were not considered "white".)
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