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Dreaming Of A Self Beyond Whiteness And Isolation, John Powell
Dreaming Of A Self Beyond Whiteness And Isolation, John Powell
john a. powell
In this Essay I want to engage racial boundaries and social boundaries in general. I want to poke them, prod them, and examine how these boundaries are constructed—not only in the structures and arrangements of our society, but within our processes of self-identification. I want to look at how we create these boundaries, and how they, in turn, create us. I assert that these external boundaries and manifestations of whiteness and internal white identity are linked at a deep level and that a better understanding of this relationship helps to explain why whiteness and racial hierarchy are still reproduced across …