white-peopleing
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This White Woman’s Painting of Emmett Till Belongs Under the Definition of White-Peopleing, Not on a Museum Wall
Sigh … must we go over this again, white people? In the latest case of habitual boundary overstepping and appropriation, painter Dana Schutz’s work Open Casket has sparked controversy and outrage at the Whitney Biennial in New York City. The medium-sized painting depicts the battered face of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was lynched in 1955,…
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Yale University and the Curious Craze of ‘White-Peopleing’
When I was a little kid, my mother forbade me and my sisters to hit each other. Sometimes, however, when we were really mad, we would push each other into a corner, start swinging our arms wildly and scream, “I was doing this first.” We’d inform the person in the corner that they were free…