'Stuff White People Like': Treasures From A Book Tour Around America (PHOTOS)

When I began "Stuff White People Like" back in January of 2008, my knowledge of white people was limited mostly to my 29 years of being white. But I had a traveled a bit and spent four years in graduate school, so I was still in a pretty good position to observe the habits of the modern white individual.

So I started writing about them. Little would I know that there would be so many people interested in white people and how to exploit them for personal gain. Things went well. I wrote a book, I went on a few talk shows and for a while I thought I was a man who know all he could know about being white.

Then I went on a book tour.

My travels took me to magical places like Madison, WI, Austin, TX, Portland, OR, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It became painfully evident that I still had a lot to learn about white people.

It was an eye opening experience that helped me realize as much as all white people were the same, in many ways they were slightly, superficially different. But then again, there are few things that white people like more than slight, superficial differences

So I've set out to continue finding all of those things that bind white people together in unity, but this time I want to take it further, I want to take it to the independent coffee shops of the college towns in the Midwest, the music festivals in rural Tennessee, the bicycle collectives in Los Angeles and many more.

"Stuff White People Like" is going regional.

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From the Book, WHITER SHADE OF PALE by Christian Lander. Copyright © 2010 by Christian Lander. Reprinted by arrangement with Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved."

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From the Book, WHITER SHADE OF PALE by Christian Lander. Copyright © 2010 by Christian Lander. Reprinted by arrangement with Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved."

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[Indigo1941]

10:13 AM on 11/30/2010

Um . . . could I see it in something less self-consciously ironical?

[kikaidaboy]

12:24 PM on 11/29/2010

Go rent "The History of White People in America". Martin Mull and friends.

[handyallen1]

09:21 PM on 11/28/2010

snarky yes, funny not so much

[comicpro]

08:04 PM on 11/28/2010

Hilarious! As a professional comic its always fun to read good clean funny stuff! GO WHITE PEOPLE!!!!!

[PRONESE]

05:38 PM on 11/28/2010

Coffee.
Link: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/18/1-coffee/#comments
R/ PRONESE

[James Napoli]

03:23 PM on 11/28/2010

Can't wait for Boston! (Although you've already given "perpetually angry" to New York.) Go white people!

[MyNameIsJames]

12:46 PM on 11/28/2010

The whole term "White People" is a social construct used to exclude "non-White people", so the term is inherently political. People who came from Europe to the USA didn't consider themselves White people until inheriting the term as a form of social privilege. That social privilege didn't guarantee success

BUT

it separated Whites from those designated for be systematically marginalized in American life. This was an intentional social policy that had achieved intergenerational benefits for the past 300 plus years.

Oh yeah - the President is White too.

[kikaidaboy]

12:19 PM on 11/29/2010

gee thanks for the history lesson.

[garystartswithg]

11:37 AM on 11/28/2010

I live in Atlanta, and I know a guy that works for adult swim! Somone on my block drives the Mystery Machine home for lunch. If you spent more time here you would learn the love for sports acoutrement was just a slight deviation from the greater Atlanta love of looking like you are sporty -- people still drive jeeps here, and its not even ironic. Ride a hybrid bike that at least looks like it might go off road. All clothes are bought secondhand from one of our many swaps, even though you could buy them at UA on clearance for less. If you want to pick up chicks use an acoustic guitar and SweetWater (reduces your carbon footprint, y'all) as bait. PBR is served at every bar and restaurant in town, thats southern hosptality.

[aceinthehole1970]

09:31 AM on 11/28/2010

I am a white person and this guy is spot on! His two books are great reading. The highest form of flattery is mockery. The highest level of self-esteem is being able to make fun of one's self. If you don't find his humor funny, you may want to "check yourself before you wreck yourself."

[LisaCACO]

02:04 PM on 11/27/2010

I'm thinking some white people don't like sweeping generalizations about white people, even in the name of comedy ;) .

meanwhile lots of not white people think it's funny to see the shoe on the other foot.

[elcerritan]

01:19 AM on 11/28/2010

I'm thinking some white people have no sense of humor.

[PDXPLT]

12:10 PM on 11/28/2010

I'm thinking that's not at all unique to white people.

[JessCostello]

10:18 PM on 11/28/2010

Those who want to see the shoe on the other foot are often 
the very people that site makes fun of. The best are the comments where some self-hating white liberal rages on about how horrible the site is.

[RVU]

11:42 PM on 11/26/2010

Thanks for hitting that shot against UK Wildcats all those years ago. Clutch man. Glad to see you wound up doing something productive.

[Duane Hanes]

03:19 PM on 11/24/2010

Too funny...somehow I hear a new version of Randy Newman's song "Short People" playing:

They got nasty little hands
Little bloodshot eyes
They walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got pinched noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear Rockport shoes
On their nasty little feet

Well, I don't want no white people...
Don't want no white people 'round here...

[Duane Hanes]

03:11 PM on 11/24/2010

The caricatures of the MidWest people aren't white or dull enough, if you can imagine that. I mean, these people are REALLY white...Ward Cleaver white. Yikes!

[hey0there]

06:00 PM on 11/25/2010

They are also the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. Try walking around any Midwestern city. In my brief stint in minneapolis a few years ago I think every white person in the city said hello to me as I walked by at least once and maybe twice. The black people did too for that matter (that weren't imported Somali Muslims)

[mccord82]

01:53 PM on 11/28/2010

Come down to Alabama. People around here generally are very nice, curtious, and community oriented. I've had strangers go way out of their way to lend a helping hand.

[JessCostello]

10:19 PM on 11/28/2010

White isn't a pejorative, it's not something to be ashamed of either.

[rini]

07:19 AM on 11/24/2010

Count me as another one, with my Obama sticker on my Prius (I'm on my MacBook now) and my regular appearance at Whole Foods.

[rini]

03:30 PM on 11/24/2010

Oh, and I went to yoga since the above post.

[Tom D Green]

11:12 PM on 11/23/2010

So wow, what's the world coming to? This is totally weird, a white guy writing about the bad things that white people are all about. Stupidity, I'm a "white guy" if you quantify my gene set, but I'm trying really hard to be just a "human being". When government forms discontinue asking us what our race is, then I'll say that the race card has finally disappeared. I'm always tempted to answer the race question on forms, simply by responding 'human'. "This dude is absolutely doing nothing to further the cause of racial equality. He's sick and not part of the solution.

[GraphicMatt]

11:20 AM on 11/24/2010

It's called comedy. Haven't read the book but his website is absolutely hysterical. Lighten up dude.

[elcerritan]

01:10 AM on 11/28/2010

Oh, dear another white person with no sense of humor. Well, after all, I guess that's just another thing white people like: earnestness ... EXTREME earnestness.

By the way, I'm white.