This is a very helpful and needed review. It is important to set Wolfe's modern racism in historical context. One point - WASP did begin as you suggest but the W was repurposed much earlier and not just by Wolfe. I can recall White Anglo-Saxon Protestant being used in the 1960s. I can provide cites if needed. Looking forward to the next installment!
Thanks for this, I appreciate your work. Minor typo: Blut und Boden (the d was left off of und). In an odd way, Wolfe agrees with Native historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz that the US is “not a nation of immigrants,” though Wolfe perversely wants to baptize settler colonialism and the racial capitalism that emerged in and through the history of state formation here, whereas Dunbar-Ortiz obviously does not.
This is a very helpful and needed review. It is important to set Wolfe's modern racism in historical context. One point - WASP did begin as you suggest but the W was repurposed much earlier and not just by Wolfe. I can recall White Anglo-Saxon Protestant being used in the 1960s. I can provide cites if needed. Looking forward to the next installment!
Yes, I think most of us first heard of it as "white," but the acronym was still synonymous with "the upper crust."
Thanks for this, I appreciate your work. Minor typo: Blut und Boden (the d was left off of und). In an odd way, Wolfe agrees with Native historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz that the US is “not a nation of immigrants,” though Wolfe perversely wants to baptize settler colonialism and the racial capitalism that emerged in and through the history of state formation here, whereas Dunbar-Ortiz obviously does not.
Oh, good catch. Thanks.