> Huh? What is a “white” instrument? They’re inanimate objects. And inanimate objects can have common associations with racial identities. > The banjo in its

> Huh? What is a “white” instrument? They’re inanimate objects. And inanimate objects can have common associations with racial identities. > The banjo in its modern form is well understood to be an American instrument and it’s well understood that its roots were in an instrument Africans brought over. That’s American - a netting lot of things. Giddens says as much immediately after the part you quoted.