I am busty, and I am loud, and I love bad taste. I am bad taste. The interview with her was published in the book edited by Wray and Newitz. We abolitionists may be guilty of many sins, but we do not patronize white working-class people, or treat them as specimens, the way some of our accusers make careers out of doing. People called white may take part in one or more of them, but there is no such thing as white culture.
American culture is mongrel.
Race and culture are different categories. No reputable scientist any longer holds that race has any foundation in biology, and I shall not review that discussion here. Yet in their eagerness to preserve a white identity, the preservationists sometimes slip back into biological rationales for it. It is also a diversity of cultures, histories, and finally, an inescapable physical marker. Contrary to her claim, whiteness is about neither nature nor culture, but status.