I was recently in a discussion about the ways in which people of color are disproportionately targeted by the police (think: stop-and-frisk, among other rights violations), disproportionately incarcerated, and disproportionately imprisoned for long stretches. As is often the case in…
Read More[The graphic is a Bingo card with 25 squares. Title: How Not to Have a Conversation about Racism Top row: You can never know what is really in another person’s mind.You’re always playing the race card.You’re just prejudiced against white…
Read MoreFollowing is my second critical annotation of the semester. — In her 1997 book, Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race, Patricia Williams reflects upon the contradiction between our cultural insistence that color does not matter and the material…
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