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Just us : an American conversation /

At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rankine, Claudia, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Whites > Race identity > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Race relations > 21st century.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • What if
  • Liminal spaces I
  • Evolution
  • Lemonade
  • Outstretched
  • Daughter
  • Notes on the state of whiteness
  • Tiki torches
  • Study on white male privilege
  • Tall
  • Social contract
  • Violent
  • Sound and fury
  • Big little lies
  • Ethical loneliness
  • Liminal spaces II
  • José Martí
  • Boys will be boys
  • Complicit freedoms
  • Whitening
  • Liminal spaces III.