By Igor Kuznetsov
From Sputnik
News
Among other things, the essay suggested that white milk takes away the
unique properties of black coffee, "domesticates", and
"controls" it, making a point about "drink-based
colonisation". The author of the essay went on to rhetorically ask readers
"what on earth was happening to our bastions of education".
A hoax paper in critical whiteness that
problematises the use of white milk in black coffee as racist, has been
accepted by Stockholm University and even received some praise.
The essay called "Black and white
drinks" was written by 27-year-old Arvid Haag and framed as an
"account of what happened from the early 20th century in the struggle
between coffee and milk".
In the essay, Haag described how the marketing
of coffee has been characterised by highlighting the "black and exotic
elements" of the drink. With milk, however, "the local and the
white" was emphasised, the news outlet Fria Tider reported.
(“Problematises”?
(The author said, "It
took about three hours to write the text, and I added links to books I haven't
read.")
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