Word: funderburg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reported by Deborah Fowler/Odessa, Lise Funderburg/ Philadelphia, Marc Hequet/Minneapolis, Alice Park/New York, Anne Moffett/Washington, and Jeffrey Ressner and Stacie Stukin/Los Angeles...
...Lise Funderburg...
...reread Lise Funderburg's commentary on the new U.S. Census categories for race several times to make sure that it wasn't a tongue-in-cheek take on old stereotypes of African Americans and Caucasians [ESSAY, March 26]. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Funderburg actually attributed her "love of watermelon, fried foods" to her African-American ancestry and her "taste for soy milk, vanilla flavored" to her Caucasian side. Why would she connect such hackneyed, trite and superficial traits to her beautiful heritage? What about a strong sense of pride, survival or reflection? A person with the benefit...
...understand Funderburg's support of the new multicategory choice of race on the 2000 Census and the sense of freedom it may give some people who see themselves as "multiracial." But to use the term race with any sense of seriousness is a mistake. Unless one sets about deconstructing the use of race as an ideology, one cannot escape participation in the racism that produces such a term. Blackness and whiteness are words that are representative of the history of power relations in this country, and that is one thing the Census count has addressed inadequately. REBECKA RUTLEDGE St Louis...
...Lise Funderburg...