American indian Quote by David Roediger

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

For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton…

— David Roediger

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

“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

“What I discovered during my studies in Poe's and other early Americans' texts was the intellectual source of racial Whiteness. Here, in these pages,…

— Mat Johnson

White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White people do…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in…

— Sherman Alexie

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

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science…

— Manisha Sinha

“Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?' Carl Anthony quoted by…

— Rebecca Solnit

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

— Ntozake Shange