A group of white men and women talk about some tough topics including whiteness, privilege, and cultural appropriation.
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While we too often and too loudly insist that race does not matter, there is a growing body of research that shows race impacts many of our decisions (many with deadly consequences), and that implicit bias and racial anxiety are likely to be greater for those who cling to the belief of a colorblind...
Racism. The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance, manifest and implied.
There is this thing that happens, all too often, when a Black woman is being introduced in a professional setting. Her accomplishments tend to be diminished. The introducer might laugh awkwardly, rushing through whatever impoverished remarks they have prepared.
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.
“Organizing is both science and art.
“The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.”
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.