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How Racism Began as White-On-White Violence

By Resmaa Menakem — 2018

Did over ten centuries of decontextualized medieval European brutality, which was inflicted on white bodies by other white bodies, begin to look like culture? Did this inter-generational trauma and its possible epigenetic effects end with European immigrants’ arrival in the “New World”?

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Toni Morrison on Language, Evil and ‘the White Gaze’

Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, returned to Cornell March 7, 2013, for a conversation about literature, politics and, especially, language.

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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women—women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print (June Jordan). Library Journal.

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Racial Discrimination