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This study is dated, but I’m including it as there’s not much research in this area even today as I write this book.12
LaTonya Wilkins • Leading Below the Surface
potential victims
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
attentive to the deceitful machinations of those who fancy themselves the self-appointed stewards of humanity.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
In 1964, eight years before I was born, my family moved from Titusville to Ensley. Ours was the third Black family on the block. And the last White man on our block, which changed from White to Black across a few years, diligently kept up a sign that read “Zoned for whites.” Each morning on the way to school, the neighborhood boys kicked it down. E
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Black liberation theology.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
We use these things to determine who we hire, the boundaries of neighborhoods, who gets pulled over by police, the length of prison sentences, and on it goes.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Bell was an open advocate of historical revisionism and is best known for his “interest convergence” thesis, described in his 1970 book, Race, Racism, and American Law.9 This thesis holds that whites have allowed rights to blacks only when it was in their interest to do so—a dismal view that denies the possibility that any moral progress had been m
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act