
What does it mean to "inherit whiteness?"
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Your Memoir, an Autobiography of Whiteness
The author grew up in south carolina, a state that has a long and fraught racial history. He left the area at one point because he felt like he couldn't stay immersed any longer. His father worked for an insurance company downtown that had been founded by a slaveholding family shortly after the civil war. The book is called 'An autobiography of whiteness'
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