Nov 20, 2015 · About Rich Benjamin. The author of Searching for Whitopia, Rich Benjamin observes modern society and politics. Benjamin is a senior fellow at Demos, a multi-issue think tank, and is just ...
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America is a 2009 non-fiction book by Rich Benjamin. In May 2010, Benjamin briefly summarized his experiences in a TED talk. Overview. African American journalist Rich Benjamin documents his journeys to find ...
Nov 29, 2009 · Benjamin, who has a Ph.D. in literature from Stanford, chronicled his long journey in a new book Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America. Benjamin's is a ...
Jan 07, 2017 · The whitopia that Rich Benjamin describes came about as a result of white immigrants, increased populations that are at a range of a six percentage since the year two thousand and these white folks have an indescribable charm. This development came about as a result of the need to get away from racial protestations say in those that occurred in ...
Whitopia (by 2007) is that place in the US where White people move to be among their own kind. Not the Rust Belt or the Farm Belt, but places like exurban Atlanta or the Idaho panhandle, places where White people of means move. Of the 3,142 counties in the US, 284 are Whitopian, all but 17 of them red.
I heard Rich Benjamin do Whitetopia on a TED Talk it was quite humorous and entertaining.
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African American journalist Rich Benjamin documents his journeys to find out why more and more white Americans move to small towns and areas that are, for the most part, white, and to explain why Whitopias are growing and what it means for the United States.
In St. George, Benjamin rented a house over the telephone in a gated community, La Entrada.
In the early 21st century, architectural historians have published studies related to the construction of whiteness in the built environment. Studies have grappled with the exclusionary nature of the architectural profession, which erected barriers for nonwhite practitioners, the ways in which architects and designers have employed motifs, art programs, and color schemes that reflected the aspirations of European-Americans and, most recently, with the racialization of space.
A central tenet of whiteness studies is a reading of history and its effects on the present that is inspired by postmodernism and historicism, in which the very concept of racial superiority is said to have been socially constructed in order to justify discrimination against non-whites.
Whiteness studies is the study of the structures that produce white privilege, the examination of what whiteness is when analyzed as a race, a culture, and a source of systemic racism, and the exploration of other social phenomena generated by the societal compositions, perceptions and group behaviors of white people.
Another contribution to whiteness studies is Gloria Wekker ’s White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race, which discusses the immutability and fluidity of white identity and its relationship to innocence in the context of post-colonial Netherlands in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Nakayama and Krizek also suggest that by naming whiteness, one calls out its centrality and reveals its invisible, central position.
An offshoot of critical race theory, theorists of critical whiteness studies seek to examine the construction and moral implications of whiteness, in order to reveal and deconstruct its assumed links to white privilege and white supremacy. Barbara Applebaum defines it as the "field of scholarship whose aim is to reveal the invisible structures that produce and reproduce white supremacy and privilege", and "presumes a certain conception of racism that is connected to white supremacy". Anoop Nayak describes it as underpinned by the belief that whiteness is "a modern invention [which] has changed over time and place", "a social norm and has become chained to an index of unspoken privileges", and that "the bonds of whiteness can yet be broken/deconstructed for the betterment of humanity". There is a great deal of overlap between critical whiteness studies and critical race theory, as demonstrated by focus on the legal and historical construction of white identity, and the use of narratives (whether legal discourse, testimony or fiction) as a tool for exposing systems of racial power.
White shift. White racial shift or decline, which has been abbreviated to the phrase whiteshift, and its intersection or connectedness to whiteness, has been a source of study and academic research within the field of whiteness studies.