
Race and Wokeness in America (Robert Wright & Coleman Hughes)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Why I Don't Know What to Do About Racism, but I'm a Black Kid at New York Academy
"I had this one really quite annoying experience where I had a huge Afro at the time," she says. "The white kids in Montclair were totally used to seeing Afros and cornrows and every type of hairstyle, because a third of the kids at their school day-to-day were black." The rhetoric he heard at Columbia seemed to point in a very different direction from Martin Luther King's ideal.
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