Category: Nikki Haley
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How Brahmins lead the fight against white privilege
Upper-class Indians are prominent in America’s radical racial politics despite centuries of privilege
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How Brahmins lead the fight against white privilege
Upper-class Indians are prominent in America’s radical racial politics despite centuries of privilege
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How Brahmins lead the fight against white privilege
Upper-class Indians are prominent in America’s racial politics despite centuries of privilege
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Nikki Haley shows she’s a good politician in regards to religion too
This week on The Remnant podcast, Jonah Goldberg, whose wife works for Nikki Haley, expounded at length about her skill as a politician. His point, which is legitimate, is that Haley is well liked by the broad mass of Trump-supporting Republicans (if not elite pro-Trump idealogues), as well as Trump-skeptical conservatives. I’ve known of Nikki…
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What does a critical race theorist call a black man with a Ph.D.?
Malcolm X asked two generations ago: ““What does the white man call a black man with a PhD?” His response? “A nigger with a PhD.” In this frame Malcolm X was repeating objectively the state of affairs in American society at the time. Visible black ancestry marked someone as black, and other social variables were…
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Amardeep Singh on l’affaire Haley
Nikki Haley, Race, and the U.S. Census. As Singh observes, it’s complicated with regards to Nikki Haley. Of course some people don’t like complication, and like to turn everything into black and white cut-outs to further their own ideology. That doesn’t mean we always have to play by their rules (for what it’s worth, I…
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Nikki Haley as white
Apparently Nikki Haley checked her race as “white” in some form in 2001. The horror! First, Nikki Haley kind of looks on the white side. Second, though I check “Asian” I do so because of its cultural valence, and that valence is socially constructed. The “Asian American” category as encompassing South Asians is an artifact…