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In this long battle, a battle by no means finished, the unforeseeable effects of which will be felt by many future generations, the white man’s motive was the protection of his identity; the black man was motivated by the need to establish an identity. And despite the terrorization which the Negro in America endured and endures sporadically until
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
ideas argue that racist policies are the cause
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music


W. E. B. Du Bois
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Elvis’s life before fame featured repeated experiences with humiliation, but he also experienced something else characteristic of the South and the United States in general: the wages of Whiteness. An effort to place Elvis more accurately in history doesn’t just require a recognition that he saw his indebtedness to Black musicians. It also means
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