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Joan Walsh is editor at large of Salon and an MSNBC political analyst. She divides her time between San Francisco and New York City. Visit her online at www.salon.com/writer/joan_walsh or follow her on Twitter @joanwalsh.
Image credit: Susan M. Walsh
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What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was (2012) 106 kappaletta
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for some reason i expected the subtitle to be relevant, that it might be about the perception that the 50s were an upstanding, right-thinking time and that "moral decay" is a fuzzy thing to define and hard to defend. that would have been interesting, maybe?
what it's really about isa plea for more class consciousness in lieu of identity politics. she talks a lot about her family's white-ethnic identity and her relationships to people of color (she hates the term, i guess because it unites black physicists with puerto rican peasants, which she rejects as a useful construction, and i'm not sure that i do). there's not much that's new or convincing to me about her argument that the democratic party has been splintered from within by identity politics. this privileges the tragedy of assumed "wins" over democratic process and participation by marginalized people (one of the things i like best about identity politics is *it gets people into politics*). and it assumes some diabolical competence in republican leadership -- was she there for the shitshow that was the 2012 primaries?
it's also filled with detailed apologies and defenses of things she personally wrote or said during the 2008 primaries, which seemed so shockingly far from relevant! i flipped through looking for her Larger Point without finding one.
this is memoir more than argument. if you want to know more about joan walsh specifically, check it out.… (lisätietoja)