Who doesn't like making fun of white people?

I have a new favorite blog. It's called Stuff White People Like and it's frakking hilarious! Like much quality humor, it's partly tongue-in-check and partly true, while also making us a little uncomfortable by dealing with a topic like race. My favorite entries so far are: #47 Arts degrees, #44 Public radio, #62 Knowing what's best for poor people, #18 Awareness, #14 Having black friends, #25 David Sedaris, #49 Vintage, and #67 Standing still at concerts.

While this blog is definitely more along the lines of pop culture, there's an entire academic community devoted to the study of "Whiteness." It's all about the social construction of race, the apparent invisibility of ethnicity with white people, white privilege, etc. Pretty interesting stuff. Here is one of my favorite academic sites on the topic. While the Stuff White People Like blog is not explicitly connected to the Whiteness Studies movement, I see them both as part of the same larger agenda. Explicitly pointing out the things white people see as a regular part of their everyday lives helps us to understand how whiteness and white culture are equated with the "normal," average," "American." And starting a conversation on race in America with humor makes white people less defensive.

Or maybe the audience of the blog is just a bunch of white people who want to pat themselves on the back for how enlightened and "not like other white people" they are since they understand their white privilege. But no matter what, the blog is still damn funny!