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Introduction — Invisible Institute
invisible.institute“[t]he South has tons of black people, so even if you’re racist, you’re still down with the black people. But up there, they ain’t got that many black people so they don’t even know how to act.”
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Late in the era of the syphilis experiment, doctors discovered that rather than bad blood, Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black tobacco farmer and mother of five, had magical cells, so hardy that they were labeled immortal. In 1951, Lacks visited Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore complaining of vaginal bleeding. While she was undergoing treatment for
... See moreLinda Villarosa • Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
“The conspiracy to destroy Black boys is very complex and interwoven,” Jawanza Kunjufu, a Chicago educational consultant, wrote in his Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, a 1982 pamphlet that has since been extended to three volumes.
Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
generic, though gendered, Native.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
from the perspective of the dominant class in Israel.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
With few material resources, impoverished Black women and other women of color were most vulnerable to the exploitations of state agencies that worked to uphold racism and white supremacy.68 The birth control movement of the



