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“If you are white, you have an obligation to at least understand where the concept of whiteness comes from and to decide how you will proceed with that knowledge. I hope your journey will include an intentional choice to acquire dexterity.”
― Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
― Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
“Just as twenty-first century masters of the universe exploit workers, lobby for tax loopholes, and devise or reap profits from predatory business practices, [Thomas] Jefferson and his peers found it very hard to give up the unearned advantages of systems of exploitation.”
― Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
― Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
“We don't like to admit that the ideology of white supremacy, constructed and reified for centuries, is still with us in the expectations that many whites have. Ina social world in which whiteness is central, where white people have the luxury of thinking of themselves as individuals and never in racial terms, seeing or talking about race is unnecessary and often forbidden, except for intra-tribal talk about the problems of others. In this sense, people who profess themselves to be color-blind are disingenuous or deluding themselves”
― Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
― Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
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| Literary Fiction ...: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees | 23 | 97 | Aug 25, 2009 07:39PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: 2014 Hurston Wright Legacy Award | 1 | 19 | Jan 14, 2015 01:26PM | |
| The Book Club: Books and Authors in the Media | 71 | 115 | Jan 14, 2015 01:36PM |
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