“Role modeling language assumes that inequality exists due to lack of imagination on the part of the oppressed.”
— Melissa Harris-Perry, reminding folks that marginalized populations are marginalized due to structural reasons (i.e. institutional racism), not because there haven’t been enough black presidents for little kids to look up to.
I saw MHP in the flesh yesterday, talking about her new book “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America” at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. This was hands-down one of the best public lectures I’ve ever been to.
I saw MHP in the flesh yesterday, talking about her new book “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America” at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. This was hands-down one of the best public lectures I’ve ever been to.
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