Monday, July 30, 2007

huh. nerd=white?

who knew?

Nerds - Dress and Apparel - Intelligence - New York Times

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Orange: it *is*, but this points to the limitations of the cultural imagination of race in the US--if it's not black/white it drops out of the consciousness of most cultural commentary.

Delia Christina said...

exactly. which is why 'urban' codes for black, 'nerd' codes for white and other color spectrums aren't in the mix at all.

our culture likes its generalizations to fall into just two camps. that's it. just two. no more.

Orange said...

I hate that limited two-race dichotomy. "Oh, here's an article about interracial marriage...wait, my family doesn't exist here."