White Identities in the Post-Civil Rights Era: What Happens to White Identities When White Supremacy Is Replaced as the Basis for a Common National Identity?

Four Possibilities:

• A Pan-Ethnic Identity (Nathan Glazer)
• Racial Populism (Charles Murray)
• Myrdalian Colorblind Liberalism (The Thernstroms)
• White Anti-Racism

Winant's Schema of White Racial Politics

• The Far Right: Neo-Fascism and the KKK
• The New Right: Utilizing the Language of Colorblindness to Defend White Racial Privilege-- Murray's White Populists
• Neo-Conservatism: Insisting on Colorblind Processes, Irrespective of Racial Outcome-- The Thernstroms
• Neo-Liberalism: Minimizing Race-Specific Policies In Order to Promote Multi-Racial Political Coalitions-- The Clintons

* Anti-Racists and New Abolitionists-- Within this community, there is considerable debate whether the goal should be to rid the nation of all forms of white racial identity (given its roots in white supremacy) or whether white anti-racists should embrace a white identity in order to strip it of its association with privilege and oppression.

The Politics of Anti-Racism

• Social Constructionists
• Rejecting White Privilege: Unlearning Racism, Becoming a Race Traitor
• Can Whiteness Be Abolished or Must It Be, As Winant argues, shorn of its association with white supremacy and Rearticulated ?