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Whiteness, privilege, fragility

Learn about the concepts of Whiteness, White privilege and White fragility. and they relate to systems of racial oppression.

"Our search for understanding in matters of race automatically inclines us toward blackness, although that is not where these answers lie. It has become a common observation that blackness, and race more generally, is a social construct. But examining whiteness as a social construct offers more answers."

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White privilege, light-skinned privilege & colourism

On Whiteness

book cover: Black on white : Black writers on what it means to be white by David Roediger
book cover: White lies : race and the myths of whiteness by Maurice Berger
book cover: The History of White People by Nell Irvine Painter
book cover: Whiteness in America by Monica McDermott

Race and Privilege with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott

Ijeoma Oluo | So You Want to Talk About Race | Talks at Google

Reni Eddo-Lodge: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

book cover: So you want to talk about race by Oluo Ijeoma
book cover: Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
book cover: White Fragility: Why It's so hard for White people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo
Fragilité blanche : ce racisme que les blancs ne voient pas
Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction by Sheila Wilmot
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