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whiteness goes even one better: it is a category of identity that is most useful when its very existence is denied. That’s its twisted genius. Whiteness embodies Charles Baudelaire’s admonition that “the loveliest trick of the Devil is to
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“Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“Innocence is both a privilege and a cognitive handicap, a sheltered unknowingness that, once protracted into adulthood, hardens into entitlement.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“To be antiracist is to emancipate oneself from the dueling consciousness. To be antiracist is to conquer the assimilationist consciousness and the segregationist consciousness. The White body no longer presents itself as the American body; the Black body no longer strives to be the American body, knowing there is no such thing as the American body, only American bodies, racialized by power.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Harmless White fun is Black lawlessness.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Suddenly Americans feel self-conscious of their white identity and this self-consciousness misleads them into thinking their identity is under threat. In feeling wrong, they feel wronged. In being asked to be made aware of racial oppression, they feel oppressed. While we laugh at white tears, white tears can turn dangerous. White tears, as Damon Young explains in The Root, are why defeated Southerners refused to accept the freedom of black slaves and formed the Ku Klux Klan. And white tears are why 63 percent of white men and 53 percent of white women elected a malignant man-child as their leader.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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