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Whiteness

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Seeing in the Dark

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 13, 2021October 19, 2022

“I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”

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The Dolly Moment

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 23, 2021October 19, 2022

“Only a society that willfully believes itself ‘post-racist’ could produce such a queen.”

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He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 3, 2021October 19, 2022

Dan-el Padilla Peralta “believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.”

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A Heart Is Not a Nation

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 4, 2020October 19, 2022

Jeff Sharlet explores hate and Trumpism in America.

Posted inNonfiction

‘To Be Polite By Ignoring the Obvious’: Jess Row on Unpacking Whiteness in Literature

by Morgan Jerkins September 12, 2019January 27, 2023

“I was looking for texts that seem to go the extra mile in hiding something — texts that almost seem to be begging to be interpreted in terms of what’s not being said.”

Posted inNonfiction

Whiteness on the Couch

by Natasha Stovall August 12, 2019October 18, 2022

Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.

Elderly Care
Posted inBooks, Highlight, Quotes, Writing

When Accepting Support Feels Like Becoming a Burden

by Catherine Cusick February 25, 2019October 19, 2022

When Ijeoma Oluo offers to buy her aging white mother a home, her mother worries she’s become a burden.

Posted inEditor's Pick

It’s Like This and Like That and Like What?

by benhuberman May 3, 2018October 19, 2022

When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.

Posted inNonfiction

It’s Like This and Like That and Like What?

by Rebecca Schuman May 2, 2018October 27, 2022

When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Other People in Springfield

by Sari Botton December 29, 2017October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Imran Siddiquee considers how his identities — as a Bangladeshi-American and as a man — were shaped by growing up in the shadow of The Simpsons.

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