Discovery Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race,…

— Tim Wise

Growing up in a school that was majority white, my understanding of the world was that I was different but that differences shouldn't be…

— Alicia Garza

“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

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

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

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

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

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

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected…

— Ruth Benedict

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . .…

— Noel Ignatiev

'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our history. I…

— Tessa Thompson