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David Whyte: On Belonging and Coming Home

By David Whyte — 2009

Poet/Philosopher David Whyte in an intimate conversation about the challenges and experience of belonging.

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The Origin of Others

America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging.

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Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates (foreword)
2025
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Black Skin, White Masks

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work.

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Frantz Fanon
2008
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On Belonging: What Is Behind Our Psychological Need to Belong?

Much of human behavior, thought, and emotion stems from our psychological need to belong. In psychologist Christopher Peterson’s words, other people matter.

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Marianna Pogosyan
2017
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You Belong: A Call for Connection

We are not separate from each other. But we don’t always believe it, and we certainly don’t always practice it. In fact, we often practice the opposite—disconnection and domination. From unconscious bias to “cancel culture,” denial of our inherent interconnection limits our own freedom.

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Sebene Selassie
2021
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