Were you marked as hyperwhites by the rest of the students?Were we hyper whites?
Hyperwhites
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Nope, nerds
Hey all!
We were marked as "nerds" or "popular" or "f*gs" or the like, as I mentioned in the earlier post, the color of our social status was not an issue, hispanics were not cut out because they were browner than we, but rather because they generally came from "lower classes" meaning "wet-back immigrant workers" or "third generation Americans who still speak spanish at home to the parents and grandparents" and thus not of our interest. We were nonsmokers, brainy kids, who hung out in the library instead of the parking lot or smoking hole, and even hung out with our teachers when the teachers decided to hang out with us. But we were also confused teenagers who thought about sex almost constantly but did little to act on those thoughts, just as many other teenagers.
peace,
revel.
We were marked as "nerds" or "popular" or "f*gs" or the like, as I mentioned in the earlier post, the color of our social status was not an issue, hispanics were not cut out because they were browner than we, but rather because they generally came from "lower classes" meaning "wet-back immigrant workers" or "third generation Americans who still speak spanish at home to the parents and grandparents" and thus not of our interest. We were nonsmokers, brainy kids, who hung out in the library instead of the parking lot or smoking hole, and even hung out with our teachers when the teachers decided to hang out with us. But we were also confused teenagers who thought about sex almost constantly but did little to act on those thoughts, just as many other teenagers.
peace,
revel.
Were many of the black or hispanic students much the same?We were nonsmokers, brainy kids, who hung out in the library instead of the parking lot or smoking hole, and even hung out with our teachers when the teachers decided to hang out with us.
Was nerdyness seen as a white thing, or did it span across all races in your school?We were marked as "nerds"
Not sure what we're talking about....
Hey all.
As mentioned, there was only one black student in my HSH.
I only had a brief relationship with one hispanic student my first semester, before I became popular and it was evident that he would not become so. Casteing left him in a different social slot, though I did choose him or he chose me or we chose one another as lab partners in microbiology class. We both nearly failed.
But in the end, I don't know where these questions are heading, if I am to finally admit that I was hyper white or if I should admit that I was the only black student in the school. I only told my little anecdote because some other posts rang up the memory.
As far as I know or recall, there were no hispanic nerds, at least as I understand the term.
peace,
revel.
As mentioned, there was only one black student in my HSH.
I only had a brief relationship with one hispanic student my first semester, before I became popular and it was evident that he would not become so. Casteing left him in a different social slot, though I did choose him or he chose me or we chose one another as lab partners in microbiology class. We both nearly failed.
But in the end, I don't know where these questions are heading, if I am to finally admit that I was hyper white or if I should admit that I was the only black student in the school. I only told my little anecdote because some other posts rang up the memory.
As far as I know or recall, there were no hispanic nerds, at least as I understand the term.
peace,
revel.
No direction in particular. I'm just asking you if the actions you and your chums carried out daily were seen as hyperwhite actions. You think not, so... . Your context was not that mentioned in the thread article, so it may be understandable that you were not marked as hyperwhites by the only black guy in your school. Still, you might have be seen as hyperwhite if you had gone to a school with more black students and white students who share the African American underpinnings of European American youth culture.But in the end, I don't know where these questions are heading
Maybe your "Were we hyper whites?" question should have been "Would we have been marked as hyperwhites if we had attended a high school such as the one mentioned in the article?". To that question, I would answer "probably".