Ashley
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“If race disappears as a category of official division, as it has in most of the world, this will facilitate the emergence of a plural racial order where the groups exist in practice but are not official recognized - and anyone trying to address racial division is likely to be chided for racializing the population.”
― Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
― Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
“They jostled one another, competed for space below as they did above, in a minuet of ruin and triumph. In the subway, down in the dark, no citizen was more significant or more decrepit than another. All were smeared into a common average of existence, the A's and the C's tumbling or rising to settle into a ruthless mediocrity. No escape.”
― Zone One
― Zone One
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“Whereas for most whites racism is prejudice, for most people of color racism is systemic or institutionalized.”
― Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
― Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
“To be oppressed means to be deprived of your ability to choose.”
― Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
― Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
SA Book & Challenge Lovers
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— last activity Mar 27, 2026 02:53PM
Welcome to SA Book & Challenge Lovers. This book club is for anyone, not just South Africans, that love reading and doing reading challenges. Everyone ...more
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Reading the Chunksters
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This is a group for anyone who wants to read the Chunksters (the BIG books like Anna Karenina, War & Peace, Les Miserables, Don Quixote, Infinite Jest ...more
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— last activity Mar 05, 2026 10:34AM
This is a safe place for pro-Palestinians Readers and Activists for Palestine is a goodreads community created by a group of friends aiming to ...more
Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
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