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8 SOCIAL JUSTICE SCHOLARSHIP AND THOUGHT
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
By defending himself against police violence, Rodney King became indefensible. In other words, the more he defended himself, the more he was beaten and the more he came to be perceived as the aggressor.
Elsa Dorlin • Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence
In essence, white fragility looks like a white person taking the position of victim when it is in fact that white person who has committed or participated in acts of racial harm.
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
am also an expert in the psychology of bias.
Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
if being black meant having a race, so did being white.
Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
many white participants who lived in white suburban neighborhoods and had no sustained relationships with people of color were absolutely certain that they held no racial prejudice or animosity. Other participants simplistically reduced racism to a matter of nice people versus mean people.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility
shadeism (a byproduct of racism creating a hierarchy within minority races based on skin tone)