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The White Issue: Mama’s White

“My mother is white. And I am black. This is how I choose to define myself and this is how America chooses to define me. I have no regrets about my racial classification other than to lament, off and on, that classifications exist period.”

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The White Issue: Smothered by 90210

“Although you might not think so, the phrase ‘white people’ is, in and of itself, a slur against white people.”

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The White Issue: “Jews Are Not White”

“…And that those who claim we are and exclude our history and literature from the newly emerging multicultural canon are our oppressors.”

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The White Issue: Memoirs of a Xenophobic Boyhood

“I suppose that’s the white thing: never having to define what you are, while other people scramble to define themselves in relationship to you.”

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The White Issue: The ‘Theft of Enjoyment’

“How can one be a white, heterosexual male, and still retain a clear conscience?”

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NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

The Reason(s) Behind the No-White-After-Labor-Day Rule (Blame the One Percent!)

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