Whiteness
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Personal is Political: Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy Must Come from Within
Too often when the rubber hits the road with anti-racist white people being held accountable by Black/Latin@/Asian/Indigenous/Arab peoples for their OWN acts of covert and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Buff, Black, Tattooed, and Feminist: On the Utility of a Bro-Feminist
By Marquis Bey A feminist friend of mine—a 4’10” queer white woman—jokingly mocks my “bro-ness,” that is to say, my proclivity to throw around weights...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Can the Side Chick Speak?: Side Chicks Re(Thot)
By Samantha Crook Now that the “year of the side chick” has come to a close, let’s resolve to have a more “thotful” side chick...
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White People for Black Lives
By Zillah Eisenstein Revolutionary imagination is the most dangerous and therefore meaningful thing any of us have to offer. So I am writing in support...
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Personal is Political: Unhandsome: Race & Gender, a Chocolate Man’s POV
My complexion earned me unflattering monikers including, but certainly not limited to, Blackie, Spot, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Tar Baby. I was also...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “What White Publishers Won’t Print:” Systemic Racism in (Institutionalized) Knowledge Production
By Mali D. Collins In 2013, I began an internship with an academic publishing press. It seemed to be the perfect combination of my dream...
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Breaking News: An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter Dec
By blackspaceblog We are Black professors. We are daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces, nephews, godchildren, grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, and mothers. We’re writing to tell...
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Toni’s Powerful Intervention: Artist Tom Feelings Talks with His Son
Kamili and Tom Feelings: As members of “progressive” communities, these kinds of interventions can be embarrassing. We flatter ourselves into thinking that “we’re all right”...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Litany for Jada and Janay: In the Spirit of the Lorde
By Cinnamon Williams What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun....
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Personal is Political: Can the Subaltern Catcall?
If we wish to sincerely practice intersectionality in our feminism, then we must look with eyes unclouded by idolization at the white feminists of the...
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Personal is Political: The Myth of Diversity and Critical Thinking in American Academia
American ideals about meritocracy and “pulling yourself up by your boot straps” are myths. They simply do not exist. Education in a capitalist system is...
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#FergusonFridays: White Anti-Racism, Social Media, and the Problem of Self-Serving Allying
Since Michael Brown’s murder, the Internet has been abuzz with content focusing on what white people could and should do to counter racism. Others have...
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Back Up, Back Off, and Listen
By Aaminah Shakur In the wake of a very public war in Ferguson, Missouri, following the murder by police of Michael Brown, the white power...
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Personal is Political: An Open Letter to amerika
When people say racism doesn’t exist, they are blinded. They are blinded by the privilege and high property value that their skin possesses; they are...
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Lessons From Ferguson
By Tamura Lomax, Stephanie Troutman, and Heather Laine Talley One week ago, we traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, a place that has drawn the attention of...
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The Price of Blackness: From Ferguson to Bed-Stuy
The unsettling image of the lifeless body of 18-year old Mike Brown, the unarmed teen shot six times by Officer Darren Wilson, which laid prostrate before...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: #LightSkinnedProblems
By Ashley Millner The hardest part about being African American in a cruel, ignorant world is that many of my peers are unaware that...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
