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“While the Nazis praised “the American commitment to legislating racial purity,” they could not abide “the unforgiving hardness” under which “ ‘an American man or woman who has even a drop of Negro blood in their veins’ counted as blacks,” Whitman wrote. “The one-drop rule was too harsh for the Nazis.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“What white people are really asking for when they demand forgiveness from a traumatized community is absolution,” Gay wrote. “They want absolution from the racism that infects us all even though forgiveness cannot reconcile America’s racist sins.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Caste is the bones, race the skin. Race is what we can see,”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Those gathered on that day in Berlin were neither good nor bad. They were human, insecure and susceptible to the propaganda that gave them an identity to believe in, to feel chosen and important.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Color is a fact. Race is a social construct. “We think we ‘see’ race when we encounter certain physical differences among people such as skin color, eye shape, and hair texture,” the Smedleys wrote. “What we actually ‘see’…are the learned social meanings, the stereotypes, that have been linked to those physical features by the ideology of race and the historical legacy it has left us.” And yet, observed the historian Nell Irvin Painter, “Americans cling to race as the unschooled cling to superstition.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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