{"id":598,"date":"2014-10-30T21:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=598"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:02:12","slug":"studying-whiteness-not-beyond-the-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2014\/10\/30\/studying-whiteness-not-beyond-the-pale\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying Whiteness: Not Beyond the Pale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with the national release of Dear White People<\/em><\/a> earlier this month,\u00a0PBS recently debuted a series with a unique take on US race relations called\u00a0The Whiteness Project<\/i><\/a>. Citing a lack of critical examination of whiteness and white identity as its motivation, the program conducts\u00a0one-on-one interviews with white Americans \u201cfrom all walks of life and localities.\u201d In part one of the series, participants from\u00a0Buffalo, NY are shown responding openly, sometimes\u00a0jarringly, to questions about race, whiteness, and white privilege. Whitney Dow, the producer\/director of The Whiteness Project<\/i>, claims that through these interviews, the project hopes to examine \u201cboth the concept of whiteness itself and how those who identify as \u2018white\u2019 process their ethnic identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scholars\u00a0from numerous disciplines have written thoughtfully and critically about Whiteness and how\u00a0it pertains to U.S. race relations.\u00a0Matthew M. Hughey<\/a> and\u00a0Matt Wray<\/a>, both TSP contributors, have also written on the subject.<\/h5>\n