American society Quote by Daniel Golden

Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the achievements of…

— Jennifer Lee

“When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense of cultural…

— Ralph Ellison

“It wasn’t a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority…

— Barack Obama

As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded…

— David Roediger

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it…

— Michael Kimmel

“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Narratives of racial exceptionality obscure the reality of ongoing institutional white control while reinforcing ideologies of individualism and meritocracy. They also do whites a…

— Robin DiAngelo

“She wrote that she was pretty sure more women and people of color could enroll “without denying to white men of merit a fair…

— Irin Carmon

“Racist intentions—not policies—became covert after the 1960s.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not racially profile…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“On July 1, President Calvin Coolidge signed the measure into law. With the act’s ratification, the country was set on a course to, by…

— Adrienne Berard

One of the things that is great about this country is that we're a meritocracy. Aspirational, hard-working people who want to come here -…

— Priti Patel