The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
Statues of former US presidents in Croaker, Virginia. Photograph: Randy Duchaine/Alamy Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world Tue 20 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT In 2008, a satirical blog called Stuff White People Like became a brief but boisterous sensation. The conceit was straightforward, coupling a list, eventually 136 items long, of stuff that white people liked to do or own, with faux-ethnographic descriptions that explained each item’s purported ra...