White Lies, Black Lives
KPFA - Against the Grain
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The Resistance to Identity Change
White people are resistant against looking at whiteness for many complex reasons. Baldwin wrote that the question of identity is a question inducing the most profound panic. And what allows one to change one's identity is this idea that identity should be, and I'm quoting Baldwin now, a little like the robes of the desert through which one's nakedness can sometimes be discerned"
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