Comments on: Savage Minds Around the Web

By: tioedong

tioedong — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:52:23 +0000

“What white people buy…let your voices be heard”.

To quote the joke: Who do you mean by white people kemosabi?

Also, as a white ethnicliving in Asia, I am aghast at the press who now thinks “Whites” are a monolith… why does a survey lump all “white people” together? Russian Jews, Irish Catholics, Italian catholics, and Eastern European Orthodox all have very different backgrounds, religions and languages.

Of course, “Black people” should include southern Blacks, Blacks whose families lived in the north for generations, African immigrants, Dominicans, Hispanic blacks, and Somalian African immigrants…but never mind…

By: Jason Pribilsky

Jason Pribilsky — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:16:07 +0000

The homage to Leslie White is a nice splash of anthropology in an unlikely venue (The NYT magazine) but a few pages later it gets better. Check out Michael Taussig sporting a garish cardigan in the weekly fashion spread! I guess both NYT and Taussig have come a long way. In a 2001 interview with the Times, Taussig declined to be photographed for a story on his rock-star persona at Columbia:

“During a recent interview in his office, Mr. Taussig said the goal of fictocriticism was to ”duplicate in the writing something about the culture itself.” (The scholar, 60, declined to be photographed, saying he thought author photos were vain.)” (4/21/01, New York Times)