What is a "white man"?

[Ronald Kephart]

Weird. Some aspects of this topic have been bouncing around in my head as
well, especially while watching Sotomayor's hearing. Just last night, I
tossed a tiny bit of grist (much less than you) into the mill here:

http://crankylinguist.blogspot.com/2009/07/catching-up-again.html

Back a few weeks ago, I also commented on Dr. Sanjay Gupta's use of the term
"ethnic skin":

http://crankylinguist.blogspot.com/2009/05/paging-dr-gupta-ethnic-skin.html

More later...

Ron

On 7/19/09 1:44 PM, "Chad Douglas Nilep" <Chad.Nilep at COLORADO.EDU> wrote:

> I have just posted a musing on discourses of Whiteness (or more to the point,
> the lack of such discourses) and US politics at http://linganth.blogspot.com/
> 
> I actually feel a bit exposed by the discussion of my own whiteness in the
> last paragraph. Still, comments or reactions are welcome.
> 
> Chad D. Nilep
> Linguistics
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~nilep/