Money Quote by Edward E. Baptist

In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part…

— Rebecca Traister

I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think…

— Justine Larbalestier

“Jefferson and like-minded planters of the Upper South started deliberately “breeding” captives to supply the Deep South’s demand. “I consider a woman who brings…

— Ibram X. Kendi

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

— Chief Joseph

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned…

— Susan B. Anthony

Whites have traded their culture for power.

— Eileen O'Brien

“It had happened before she was born, this wholesale discarding of American industry, this switch from a culture that made things of value to…

— Dennis Lehane

“By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Virginia elites had taken the best land for themselves, leaving the former indentured servants land poor…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

The great white advantage has been living inside history, adapting to its constant demands, nurturing the values and the habits of life that allow…

— Shelby Steele

For much of its history, Virginia, the 'cradle of American democracy,' failed to live up to our ideals. All too often, our Commonwealth still…

— Ralph Northam

White Southerners created an entire cosmetics industry equating beauty with whiteness and trained a string of winning Miss Americas who embodied their racial ideal…

— Asha Rangappa