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“Chicago complained of being invaded by Southern hillbillies, as the national publication Harper’s documented in 1958: “The city’s toughest integration problem has nothing to do with the Negroes…. It involves a small army of white Protestant, Early American migrants from the South—who are usually proud, poor, primitive, and fast with a knife.”78 Like white trash, hillbillies were seen by white Northerners as embodying characteristics that had been exclusively associated with blacks.”
― Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
― Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
“McComb became popularly known as the “bombing capital of the world” in 1964.89 There were twelve bombings of homes, churches, and businesses in the Black community of McComb between June 22nd and August 12th.”
― We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
― We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
“Black voices critical of White racism defended themselves from these charges by saying, “Black people can’t be racist, because Black people don’t have power.” Quietly, though, this defense shields people of color in positions of power from doing the work of antiracism, since they are apparently powerless, since White people have all the power.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“McComb became popularly known as the “bombing capital of the world” in 1964.89 There were twelve bombings of homes, churches, and businesses in the Black community of McComb between June 22nd and August 12th. The perpetrators of the rash of bombing were the local Klavern of the United Klans of America.”
― We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
― We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
“Good white liberals tend to use the fact of a black middle class (sometimes unconsciously, but other times explicitly and consciously) to affirm their belief that the basic structure of liberal society is just and fair. In contrast to the black middle class, however, the existence of white trash threatens both white liberal ideals of opportunity and white liberal assumptions of openness to and acceptance of people who are different than oneself. White trash are not able to perform the same reassuring roles for white liberals as the black middle class, and so white liberals can tend to be more comfortable around black middle-class people than they are around white trash.”
― Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
― Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
Anthony Tilghman’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anthony Tilghman’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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