Part 3 of a 3-part series. The multiracial movement failed to grapple with white supremacy, and many racial justice activists to this day suspect that multiracial identity is a thinly disguised strategy for people aspiring to become white. Nor is that suspicion...
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Decentering Whiteness and Building Multiracial Community
At CSWAC we believe white American cultural values occupy the central position in US society, and white culture governs access to power and resources. We feel this is unfair; no single racial group should have exclusive hold on the central values of society. We...
The Problem of the Twenty-first Century
W. E. B. Du Bois, a noted black sociologist, wrote in 1903 what many consider among the most prescient statements of his time, i.e. that βthe problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.β Indeed, race and the struggle to transform a system of...