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for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.

the public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth, a climate devoid of irony.

Oublions Marlon Brando et son numéro raté de Panthère Noire. Ce qu'il importe de dire, c'est qu'il y a parmi les Blancs des inadaptés psychologiques, des misfits, qui utilisent la tragédie et la revendication des Afro-Américains afin de transférer leur névrose personnelle hors du domaine psychique, sur un terrain social qui la légitime. Ceux qui ca

“Certain pitiful souls around here see whiteness as their last asset that hasn’t been totaled or repossessed.”

Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.

Joshua Mitchell

Cooper’s mom taught her “that dreaming is at the core of politics. If things are going to get better, Black women have to stay invested in the project of dreaming.” The kind of tenacity it takes to turn a blueprint into reality can look like a ridiculous flight of fancy to someone standing outside one’s dream.

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’

Elaine Stritch,