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November 2013

Good Little White Girl

In the “Good Little White Girl” blog Janet Carter investigates the ways she learned to be white, growing up in a white liberal family in the Vermont of the 1950s and 1960s. She invites us to examine and reflect on how we all, as children, have been conditioned around race, …

Colored Man

Enjoy this non-white response to racialization that exposes the absurdity of oppressive language. The poem is included in Eduardo Galeano’s latest book, Children of the Days. Colored Man Beloved white brother: When I was born, I was black. When I grew up, I was black. When I am in the …