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“Immigrant self-selection”: exceptional internal drive for material success and/or possess exceptional external resources

W.E.B. Du Bois “The Souls of Black Folks” in 1903: “double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others”
- “wish to be both a Negro and an American”
- “two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder” (29)

- “secular strivings to be an anti-racist” (17)
- “definitions anchor us in principles” (17)
- “racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities” (18)
- “racial inequity: when 2+ racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing” (18)
-“anti racist policy: measure that produces or sustains racial equity”