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“An unwillingness to associate with blacks has long been considered a sign of lower-class closed-mindedness, but a 2006 study by Michael Emerson and David…

— Jared Taylor

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what…

— Clint Smith

“One important aspect of black children's learning is that they tend to be significantly more sensitive to whether their teacher likes and believes in…

— Michele Stephenson

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

— Lamman Rucker

People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white…

— John Barnes

The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This…

— Solomon Asch

Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black people, they…

— Michail Antonio

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in…

— Chaka Fattah

I was often filled with excitement to be given a platform to showcase Black history to others. I never questioned why Black history wasn't…

— Judi Love

The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out…

— David Roediger