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overwhelming majority of written history available is either about
whites or is written by whites, it just isn't called "White history"
explicitly. Same goes for "male studies". Anthropology has had a bias
towards holding the magnifying glass over men since its inception that
scholars felt the need to correct for this tendency. It isn't called
"Anthropology of women", but that's what the courses really are.
If
you really think this is a problem, the academy is always looking to
expand the scope of its inquiry and you are welcome to become the first
professor of "White Male Studies". I would actually love for this to
become a reality, as I think there is a huge gap in scholarship with
respect to wealthy white males. Anthropologists and sociologists need to
begin studying the rich. Because so far all they've studied are poor
people and people of color, and to some degree I think this is a kind of
objectification. I'm fine with objectification as long as everyone can
become subject to academic scrutiny. |