Disillusion Quote by David Roediger

Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such…

— David Roediger

“That is how they stay so white: by refusing to accept blemish or history. Whiteness isn't about being something, it is about being no…

— Mat Johnson

“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped by being…

— Robin DiAngelo

Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and…

— Robin DiAngelo

I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding.…

— Bocafloja

In the music industry, you can't create success without having to engage a white man. It's just not possible. Whether it's executives, A&Rs, and…

— Kelela

Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to…

— David Roediger

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

— Manning Marable

Those who politically theorise the artificial concept of 'whiteness' infer that anyone who has white skin cannot escape their unconscious bias. If you object,…

— Claire Fox

“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

“One of the greatest privileges of whiteness is not to see color, not to see race, and not to pay a price for ignoring…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient…

— W. E. B. Du Bois