{"id":44053,"date":"2015-11-19T01:39:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T01:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44053"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:38:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:38:15","slug":"the-myth-of-the-white-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44053","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of the White Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/critical_philosophy_of_race\/summary\/v003\/3.2.pierce.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Myth of the White Minority<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/critical_philosophy_of_race\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Philosophy of Race<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/critical_philosophy_of_race\/toc\/por.3.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 3, Issue 2, 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 305-323<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacredheart.edu\/academics\/collegeofartssciences\/academicdepartments\/philosophytheologyreligiousstudies\/philosophy\/facultystaff\/andrewpiercephd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andrew J. Pierce<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer<br \/>\nDepartment of Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, and especially in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I will argue that such predictions are misleading at best, as they rest on questionable philosophical presuppositions, including the presupposition that racial concepts like \u2018whiteness\u2019 are static and unchanging rather than fluid and continually being reconstructed. If I am right about these fundamental inaccuracies, one must wonder why the myth of the white minority persists. I will argue that by reenvisioning whites as a minority culture struggling against a hostile dominant group, and by promoting white solidarity as a response to a (fabricated) crisis, such predictions actually serve to defend and legitimize white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/critical_philosophy_of_race\/v003\/3.2.pierce.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Myth of the White Minority Critical Philosophy of Race Volume 3, Issue 2, 2015 pages 305-323 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama\u2019s reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6941,394,20],"tags":[9565,9566,21934],"class_list":["post-44053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-andrew-j-pierce","tag-andrew-pierce","tag-critical-philosophy-of-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44054,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44053\/revisions\/44054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}