…and I have been for some time, did you not notice? I said to my youngest brother, the créoliste.
At one MLA panel I attended, people were saying mixed race entities and identities needed to be created so as to bridge the gaps between the races. I say that essentializes race. Also, mixed race entities and identities have existed for centuries now, and racist practice has not been dismantled. Gary Younge:
Extinguishing race as a meaningful category demands that we first get rid of the racism that gives it meaning. In that respect, the symbolic resonance of election night in Chicago – joyous as it was – can be understood only within the systemic neglect and harassment of that fateful afternoon in Detroit. The two scenes do not contradict but complement each other. A black man in the White House seemed so unlikely precisely because a black man in prison or dead at the hands of the police is so much more likely. What individuals do in the privacy of the polling booth pleasantly surprised some of us; but the outrageous things institutions do in plain sight no longer turn heads. Race describes the protagonists; power shapes the narrative.
–“A Woman Against the System,” The Nation 288:1 (5 January 2009): 10.
This Nation also contains two good articles on the post Katrina shootings of Black people in New Orleans. These articles, incidentally, contain a great deal of local color transmitted in a completely non touristy, non orientalizing way – hard to do when writing about Louisiana. A.C. Thompson, the author, is a star.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I’m reading a series of books about the racialization of class in California. I see it here in Hawaii, which is a state run mostly by whites and Japanese. The latter are “honorary”whites. It’s a complex issue, but not That complex, once you understand its purpose, which is to keep the money flowing upwards.
Money flowing upwards, this *is* the point of it and people don’t realize…
I’ve been in the critical race theory camp, too. Thanks for posting that excerpt.
I’ve applied to take the LSAT on Feb 9 and also am applying, against the advice of almost everyone, for a Ph.D. in Rhet/Comp. I noticed a few posts ago that you are going to law school. For me, the prospect of law school is a last-ditch desperate attempt, really, to become marketable at all, but all I’m interested in are civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, maybe international law, no corporate anything and no prosecution. But I’m in my 40s and spent 15 years working 100 hours a week already to establish myself in this “career.” I don’t know if I have that in me again, and it seems that anything to be done with a law degree would require it. Any thoughts on that? I’m very interested in hearing more about your plans.
Apparently the kind of work you want to do doesn’t require those 100 hour weeks. Law school was my first career idea – I got into professordom because I liked graduate school at a cool urban R-1, but in terms of career, law is (I think) my place. Good for you re the Feb. 9 LSAT!!!
Creoliste says CRT is just for academics, isn’t part of the real world, whereas being Creole is an essence and a way of celebrating being (or some such nonsense).