Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?
Under Trump’s presidency there has been a rise in high profile anti-Jewish incidents. Perhaps because…
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Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here
Not everyone has achieved their whiteness. Some cannot achieve it. Others do not want to attain it, and some live in constant frustration in their failure to secure it.
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Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict
Anthea Butler caught flack for arguing the Zimmerman verdict exposed that a god-complex tied to white supremacy remains powerfully at work within U.S. society. She’s right, but I propose that the only religious response is to be atheist.
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What Does it Mean to Call “God” a White Racist?
American Christians must take on the difficult work of understanding how whiteness has been woven like a cancer into their Christianity.
Read MoreLiving Between Worlds: Muslim, American, Five Percenter
Michael Muhammad Knight is living in that liminal space, not crossing thresholds of belonging and closing the door. He walks back and forth, and the text conveys that sense of unsettledness. Intentionally or not, Knight forces the reader to think about how we define ourselves and how much agency we actually have in that process.
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Body Language: Michael Jackson and the Illogic of White Superiority
The King of Pop’s failing body revealed the vulnerabilities of whiteness as the norm, forcing us to rethink assumptions about what can be called ‘flesh tone.’
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