Post-white identity is related to my notion of transracialized identities. The following is an excerpt from the Race, Ethnicty, & Education article mentioned in today’s post (June 14, ‘07):
“Post-whiteness… is not meant to supplant white identity, but rather to bring it forward in response to the post-modern conditions of the twenty-first century. Post-whiteness signals a break from normative whiteness as prescribed by racialization.
Post-whiteness comes not necessarily ‘after,’ but builds on and transforms whiteness in innovative ways in conjunction with racial others, ultimately rejecting white superiority. Post-whiteness refers not to some enlightened state arrived at by individuals, but rather it is conceived as intentional movement towards the enactment of transracialized selves through active identifications with racial others in interracial discourses” (p. 195).
Even as a wee lad, I was hoping to find a clue.
