Scholar Eve Ewing on Why She Capitalizes ‘White’

From Why I Capitalize “White”:

As long as White people do not ever have to interrogate what Whiteness is, where it comes from, how it operates, or what it does, they can maintain the fiction that race is other people’s problem, that they are mere observers in a centuries-long stage play in which they have, in fact, been the producers, directors, and central actors.


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