After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

W. E. B. Du Bois taught us this, and we teach it to our students. Whiteness was offered as a promise. Precarity makes it less sturdy. There are White people who work hard all of their lives and Whiteness gives them little materially. On the other hand, there are White people who come from powerful edifices, who can point to paintings on Vanderbilt’

relies on relational epistemologies, nondual ways of thinking that destabilize the networks of classification restricting us to static notions of personal and collective identity.