I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“But if you see black identity as you see southern identity, or Irish identity, or Italian identity—not as a separate trunk, but… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Black identity since the '60s has been a totalitarian identity. It's enforced. And if you don't subscribe to the party line, then… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“So what are you supposed to do? My friends, what I need you to do—just for starters—is not act. Not yet. Not… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity.… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
The demonizing of black identity is much more of a global phenomenon than many would like to admit. I've traveled abroad extensively,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What the Clintons have always done is embraced challenging. They can't have enough photo opportunities with Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. They… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Born in Sub-Sahara Africa, I was born into my black identity because no other identity existed where I lived. However, upon coming… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
