White Male | MoMA R&D Salon 30 | MoMA LIVE

Myriad recent cultural and political events—among them the debris surrounding the 2016 US election, the #metoo movement, and the latest Supreme Court confirmation hearings—have reawakened a public discussion on the centuries-old power structure that contemplates the unabated supremacy of white men. The label “white man“ is now actively used in public discourse and acknowledged as part of identity politics, instead of remaining, as the baseline for all definitions, largely unmentioned. Nowadays, it is ofte