{"id":2822,"date":"2014-08-06T00:34:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T00:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.wordpress.com\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2015-07-28T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:51:07","slug":"the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-american-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/06\/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-american-whiteness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Triumph and Tragedy of American Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Angry<\/a>

Some pissed-off white people protest school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1959. That guy in the middle of the photo gets the award for angriest white dude EVER.<\/p><\/div>\n

Let’s all shed a tear for the untimely and tragic demise of American whiteness. No, I’m serious. At no time in history have those-of-the-pasty-complexion had it so bad. It’s almost as if they’re on the brink of losing their sacred, inalienable rights to reap the best social, economic, and cultural goodies just because they’re melanin-challenged. To quote one of the most famous of all white philosophers, “this aggression will not stand, man<\/a>!”<\/p>\n

I mean, just look around you! White peoples’ percentage of the electorate is shrinking fast<\/a>; their standard-bearer lost the presidency<\/a> to a communist-socialist-Kenyan-Muslim-Buddhist-Podiatrist-usurper in the 2012 election, and perhaps worst of all: white people can’t even hold their annual “White History Month<\/a>” parade in the proud American small town of Hope Mills, North Carolina without fear of being criticized by dusky people who just don’t know their place, dammit.<\/p>\n

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But thankfully, some heroic white people are standing up, walking tall, and vowing not to relinquish their white privilege<\/a> without a (white) fight. One of these alabaster Argonauts is even a member of Congress. That’s right, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Obviousville<\/del> Alabama) recently went on Laura Ingraham’s radio show<\/a>\u00a0to respond to an accusation by political-pundit\/stable boy, Ron Fournier, who claimed that the Republican Party \u201ccannot be the party of the future beyond November” because they’re “seen as the party of white people.\u201d Well just you wait and see what that proud Republican congressman stated in return! “This is a part of the war on whites that\u2019s being launched by the Democratic Party.\u00a0And the way in which they\u2019re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else,” the noble congresscritter told Ingraham. Brooks then went on to cite a bunch of issues, especially illegal (read: brown person) immigration, that he claims Democrats use as a cudgel to attack patriotic white folks everywhere.<\/p>\n

Brooks’ comments, while amusing, are nothing new. The phenomenon of right-wingers (who are usually members of society’s most privileged social class) adopting the mantel of victimhood is one of the major pillars of conservatism. In his fantastic book The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin<\/em><\/a>, political scientist Corey Robin notes that victimhood has long been one of the Right’s core talking-points. “The conservative, to be sure, speaks for a special type of victim,” he writes, “one who has lost something of value, as opposed to the wretched of the earth, whose chief complaint is that they never had anything to lose.”* And the sense of conservative victimhood runs deep in today’s Republican Party: a sociopolitical faction so lily-white<\/a> that it has to slather itself in SPF 300 sunscreen just to pass anti-Obamacare resolutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mo Brooks’ “war-on-whites” remarks may have been off-color, but he spoke to a very real feeling shared by many conservative white Americans: a feeling that their identity as the natural, default color of American-ness is evaporating before their eyes. Consider, for example, the dire warnings of former presidential candidate, and lovable\u00a0\u00dcbermensch<\/em>, Pat Buchanan. “The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to ‘free white persons’ of ‘good moral character,'” Buchanan moaned in 2011<\/a>. Uncle Pat then concluded that Western civilization can’t possibly survive with a slightly diminished level of white privilege. Bummer.<\/p>\n

\"Rep.<\/a>

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Al). Damn, he’s very white.<\/p><\/div>\n

But however hyperbolic their rantings are, conservative whites’ fears of their diminishing cultural status in America exist because, for the majority of U.S. history, “whiteness,” — especially white maleness — has been synonymous with privilege in the domestic, political, racial, economic, and cultural spheres of American life.\u00a0Indeed, up until very recently, to be an American WAS to be exclusively white. Of course, whiteness is also\u00a0inextricably connected to the cultural, religious, imperial, and racial subjugation of non-white peoples — a subjugation that fostered white privilege for centuries. This has been true throughout the whole of the modern era —\u00a0the time from Columbus’ fourteenth-century arrival on New World shores to the present day. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, of course, the white people who founded America gave the world some great things, such as (modern) republicanism, capitalism (to an extent, anyway), and a religious pluralism, among other boons. But the problem is that, historically, whites haven’t been too keen on sharing their privileges with non-whites. In the U.S., the most explicit white\/non-white divide has been between whites and blacks. There was that whole slavery thing. That whole Reconstruction thing. That whole Jim Crow thing. That whole Civil Rights thing. That whole “Silent Majority” thing. Throw the brown Messicans’ into the mix, stir vigorously, add a dash of equal rights, and you’ve got a recipe for some serious reactionary white porridge! As Robin writes, “because his losses are recent…the conservative can credibly claim…that his goals are practical\u00a0and achievable. He merely seeks to regain what is his, and the fact that he once had it — indeed, probably had it for some time — suggest that he is capable of possessing it again.”*<\/p>\n

It’s this spirit, the promise that white privilege can be possessed once again by those who took it for granted for so long, that animates conservative white reactionaries like Alabama representative Mo Brooks. Heck, it’s no coincidence that a pasty, conservative politician from the Deep South is worried about a non-existent “war on white people.” Back in 1928, the historian Ulrich B. Phillips observed that race was “The Central Theme of Southern History<\/a>,” and a major component of that theme was (and is) the fear of losing the benefits of being white. The very “essence” of southern identity, Phillips wrote, was the commitment to keeping the South “a white man’s country.” The fear of losing southern white privilege arose “as soon as the negroes became numerous enough to create a problem of race control in the interest of orderly government \u00a0and the maintenance of Caucasian civilization.”*<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus,\u00a0<\/span>the locus of southern exceptionalism can be found in its historical commitment to white supremacy even when other issues splintered the region into multiple factions. Historian Ira Katznelson reiterates this point in his brilliant study, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time<\/em><\/a>. While he notes that white supremacy has always been national in scope, Katznelson makes clear that, “the tension that marked the relationship between racial inequality and the country’s rights-based political system based on free citizenship — an association that had vexed the American republic from its first days — was more insistent and most acute” in the South.*<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The American South, where white privilege has always been a big deal.<\/p><\/div>\n

Politicians like Brooks, and the people who’re swayed by his rhetoric, are following in a grand conservative tradition in which fear is cultivated to prevent the loss of long-enjoyed white privilege. Although\u00a0the fires of southern race-baiting have dimmed significantly over time, their embers still create heat in the form of reactionary stances against the loss of an American identity that is white-by-default. While most persistent in the South, this fear expanded across the nation as conservatism grew in popularity over the last few decades of the twentieth century. And make no mistake: fear and whiteness are close bedfellows.<\/p>\n

A few years back, Scientific American<\/em> reported<\/a> that, “conservatives are fundamentally more anxious than liberals, which may be why they typically desire stability, structure and clear answers even to complicated questions.” American conservatives are mostly white<\/a>, a majority of them are in the South<\/a>, and fear helps them address their anxieties by\u00a0motivating them to\u00a0continually impose their moral order over those who they believe threaten the “natural” stability of things. And in modern America, those who threaten this “stability” are the growing non-white populations. For the right-wing, the “war on white people” is very real, and the history of white privilege guarantees that this “war” will wage on for many more years — or at least as long as Pat Buchanan can type.<\/p>\n

* See Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin<\/em><\/a> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 58-9.<\/p>\n

* See Ulrich B. Phillips, “The Central Theme of Southern History<\/a>,” The American Historical Review<\/em> 34 (Oct., 1928): 31.<\/p>\n

* See Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time<\/em><\/a> (New York: W.W. Norton, 2013), 134.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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