Sublime

people already seen as white got to decide who was white.9

Robert D. Putnam.

The advocates and defenders of the black jazz avant-garde and the emergent black cultural nationalists had to distance themselves from what they took to be the threat to their project of black freedom—bebop as jazz authenticity, and cultural assimilation as the solution to black cultural subordination.

“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide,”

Racial-group behavior is a figment of the racist’s imagination. Individual behaviors can shape the success of individuals. But policies determine the success of groups.

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 t

While we still seem to be caught in the treacherous segue between stories, those cast as victims in old master narratives are writing themselves anew.

"why the 'haves' come out ahead" and suggests that the resources and experience available to established and on-going groups provide an advantage in litigation.