Third-world immigrants have dismantled the twentieth-century American color line
Evidence
“The problem of the twentieth century,” wrote W. E. B. Dubois, “is the problem of the color line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the seas.” Not anymore, not in the twenty-first century. We have made sure of it. We colorful folks confuse the color line, so that white and black folks no longer know which is which, for we are neither, we are both. We are full and free of color. We are free. We the unwritten blank pages of ourselves, waiting to be written and read by the posterity we have bred in this world—our children, and our children’s children; we will grow, and we will prosper, and we will become more. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 654
Categorization
- XREF: Ties to the Rumi invocation and to Du Bois; also resonates with the chameleon identity theme running through The Reluctant Fundamentalist. — connects to: Iranians have been positioned across the American color line for over a century. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 64
Related
- Iranians have been positioned across the American color line for over a century. (similarity 0.82)
- The color line’s fixed categories dissolve when people are neither purely white nor black. (similarity 0.81)
- Shifting racist targets from black to brown defetishizes Du Bois’s color line (similarity 0.78)