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They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic
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out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
ideas argue that racist policies are the cause
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Being a Black American requires double consciousness, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, the habit of seeing from inside the logic of race and the lives of the racialized, and from the external superego of what it means to be American, with all its archetypes and interests.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
As its title suggests, Unnamed Figures not only illuminates Black appearances in the visual culture of this period but also asks how our encounters with them are shaped by the erasure of Blackness from art and archives.
Zoë Hopkins • The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
the Black migration that built racial enclaves that became microsites of political power.