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Tag: race, race-relations

At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity–like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.

race, race-relations

Race is there. You’re tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.

race, race-relations

There is nothing like race, is there?

race, race-relations

Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it’s bred indifference.

race, race-relations

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be “white”– they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

race, race-relations