"I'm proud of my blackness because African people who are grouped together under blackness have survived and resisted," she says. "But I've come to see it less as my identity and more as like a technology, meaning." She's optimistic about tapping into those resources in this white supremacist country.
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.
Resources for this episode:
Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter