{"id":49757,"date":"2016-11-03T01:41:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49757"},"modified":"2016-11-03T01:41:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T01:41:15","slug":"behind-2016s-turmoil-a-crisis-of-white-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49757","title":{"rendered":"Behind 2016\u2019s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/02\/world\/americas\/brexit-donald-trump-whites.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Behind 2016\u2019s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/the-interpreter\" target=\"_blank\">The Interpreter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amandataub\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amanda Taub<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call it the crisis of whiteness.<\/p>\n<p>White anxiety has fueled this year\u2019s political tumult in the West: Britain\u2019s surprising <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum,_2016\" target=\"_blank\">vote to exit the European Union<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald J. Trump\u2019s <\/a>unexpected capture of the Republican presidential nomination in the United States, the rise of right-wing nationalism in Norway, Hungary, Austria and Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Whiteness, in this context, is more than just skin color. You could define it as membership in the \u201cethno-national majority,\u201d but that\u2019s a mouthful. What it really means is the privilege of not being defined as \u201cother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whiteness means being part of the group whose appearance, traditions, religion and even food are the default norm. It\u2019s being a person who, by unspoken rules, was long entitled as part of \u201cus\u201d instead of \u201cthem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But national and racial identity were often conflated for the white majority. That identity felt to many white people like one of the most important pillars holding up their world \u2014 and now it seems under threat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/02\/world\/americas\/brexit-donald-trump-whites.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind 2016\u2019s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity The Interpreter The New York Times 2016-11-01 Amanda Taub Call it the crisis of whiteness. White anxiety has fueled this year\u2019s political tumult in the West: Britain\u2019s surprising vote to exit the European Union, Donald J. Trump\u2019s unexpected capture of the Republican presidential nomination in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[25354,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-49757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-amanda-taub","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49757","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=49757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49758,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49757\/revisions\/49758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}