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“There’s not only Du Bois’s warring double consciousness. Or the dual personality James Weldon Johnson described, where we perform in the same generic style each race demands. There’s a space in our consciousness where all this racialized material collects, never static, mutating or at least recombining.
How many times could we write our cultural life stories? How many selves would tell them?”
— Jul 13, 2021 05:57AM
How many times could we write our cultural life stories? How many selves would tell them?”
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“Questions inevitably will arise. Among them: How does one—how do you, how do I—parse class, race, family and temperament? How many kinds of deprivation are there? What is the compass of privilege? What has made and maimed me?”
— Jun 15, 2020 09:23AM
