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Chauncey DeVegaElliot Rodger wasis a white man. For some people ugg boots clearance , this fact is very controversial and upsetting. Whiteness is an identity based upon maintaining a superior power relationship over people of color. Whiteness is not just a reflection of "biological race" or assumed racial group membership by virtue of parental or family lineage. Whiteness is a political project with its own set of values and normative assumptions about how society should be organized. Elliot Rodger demanded and expected power and control over others. He saw respect from others not as something earned but rather as a birthright. Elliot Rodger's life is the very definition of unearned privilege and advantage. In his desperate search for validation and affection from his white father, he projected and acted on a particular type of elite, dominative, aggressive, white masculinity and sense of entitlement. ------------------------------------------------------------------ As I wrote in 'The True Alpha Male': The Santa Barbara Mass Shooting, Elliot Rodger, and Aggrieved White Male Entitlement Syndrome, when the bad behavior of white people is publicly called to account, said person's relationship to "Whiteness" is rarely discussed. To be forced to include white mass murderers, madmen, and Right-wing domestic terrorists as part of the tribe is very uncomfortable and disconcerting. This is understandable: what reasonable person would not want to excommunicate them from their community and affinity group? Only white folks have such a luxury in the United States: a black rapist, thief ugg boots sale , or murderer is de facto a representative of "the black race" with its "bad culture" and "pathologies". There is no parallel for whites. The white murderer, thief, rapist, or mass shooter is an outlier, "mentally ill", or some type of deviant whose behavior reveals nothing about white people en masse. The boundaries of Whiteness and white privilege are heavily policed: bad people are "them"; good people are "us". Part of the appeal of "race" as a heuristic device and decision-rule is how it offers simple answers to complex social questions. Despite what white supremacists and their allies would like to believe, race is a social construct with little to no biological basis. There is one race: the human race. Human beings have not existed long enough to be divided up into distinct breeds like dogs. In the West, a person's "blood quantum", phenotype, or skin color has been, and continues to be used to calculate their location within a society's racial hierarchy. Stereotypes and assumptions related to behavior can also be neatly triangulated relative to race as well. The question "what are you?" is often less an existential matter about consciousness and agency, than an effort to locate a given person within a society's racial order. The phrase "he or she 'looks' 'Asian' cheap ugg boots , 'Black', 'Hispanic'..." is a quick shortcut and decision-rule for slotting people into an arbitrary racial group聴with the incumbent benefits and liabilities that come with that group membership. Thus, the frustrationfascination when a person's perceived racial identity does not match up with the stereotypes and expectations that dominant society projects onto them. Race is complicated. Race and racism have a history. Both are inventions. They are not natural arrangements of power between groups of human beings. Consequently, race is a combination of law, day-to-day practices, "common sense", arbitrary distinctions, habits, culture, "science", and norms which have power over life chances. As such, conceptions of race and racial identity reflect the political and social questions of a given era: they are a type of social witchcraft and mysticism. For example ugg boots uk , because of the "one drop rule", a black American can get on a plane, fly to Brazil, and then magically be transformed into a "white" person because that country's racial norms dictate that "one drop" of white blood makes you anything but "black". Likewise, during the American slave regime and then Jim and Jane Crow, a "black person" could move between races (literally crossing over from black to white and back to black again) by crossing state lines. South Asians are darker in complexion than many if not most Black Americans. Yet, they are considered "white", i.e. "Aryan" in terms of racial classification. Over several generations "non-white" European immigrants such as the Irish, Italians, Slavs, Poles, Jews cheap ugg boots uk , became fully "white". In the present, new research is calling attention to how Hispanic-Americans are increasingly choosing to identity themselves as "white". How do we locate Elliot Rodger within this complex story of race and identity? Like gender, race is a type of performance. It is a performance which can be sincere, authentic, stereotypical, deviant, natural, subversive, grotesque, beautiful, or ugly. For example, there are about 40 million different ways to be black. This includes the young person who has internalized the ugly lie that he or she is "acting white" by being a serious and responsible student. By comparison kids ugg boots clearance uk , "acting black" also includes the studied grace, dignity, and black respectability of Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America. There are likely as many ways to perform race (and ethnicity) as there are people in the United States. The immigrant who is going to assimilate by being even more "American" than his native born fellow citizens, the "white negro" who acts "black" in order to upset his parents or to be "cool", the Sikh who dresses up like Captain America in order to challenge narrow conceptions of who counts as an American, the Red State rural white voter who drives a pickup truck, watches NASCAR, and displays the Confederate flag, as well as the white suburbanite who is desperate to earn their WASP bonafides by joining a country club and going to the "right" sI̵.
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