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Coates, T.N. (2014, June). The Case for Reparations. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Coates, T.N. (2017, October 3). Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/colin-kaepernick/541845/
Collins, P. H. (1986). Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought. Social Problems, 33(6), S14–S32. https://doi.org/10.2307/800672
Crenshaw K., & Jagger, A.M. (1994) Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics In Jagger, Alison M [edu]: Living with contradictions: controversies in feminist social ethics; Boulder: Westview Press.
Davis, C.H.F, & McGuire, K.M. (2019, December 17). Killing Us Softly: Navigating State and State-Sanctioned Violence Against Black Men’s Humanity. Medium. https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/killing-us-softly-navigating-state-and-state-sanctioned-violence-against-black-mens-humanity-3891aa23e591
Diangelo, R. (n.d.). White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement. https://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/diangelo-white_fragility_and_the_rules_of_engagement.pdf
Drworksbook (2020, April). Racism Defined. https://www.dismantlingracism.org/racism-defined.html
Gorski, P. C., & Erakat, N. (2019). Racism, whiteness, and burnout in antiracism movements: How white racial justice activists elevate burnout in racial justice activists of color in the United States. Ethnicities, 19(5), 784–808. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796819833871
Gotanda, N. (1991). A Critique of “Our Constitution Is Color-Blind.” Stanford Law Review, 44(1), 1–68 https://doi.org/10.2307/1228940
Harper, S. R. (2012). Race without Racism: How Higher Education Researchers Minimize Racist Institutional Norms. The Review of Higher Education, 36(1S), 9–29. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2012.0047
Harris, A. P. (1990). Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory. Stanford Law Review, 42(3), 581–616. https://doi.org/10.2307/1228886
Harris, C.I. (1993). Whiteness as Property. Harvard Law Review, 6(8), 1707-1791.
Jones, H.N. (2020). What is Owed. The New York Times Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html
Kendi, I. X. (2020, May 12). Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/ahmaud-arbery/611539/
Mcintosh, P. (n.d.). White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
Oluo, I. (2017, March 16). Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement—Here’s What You’ve Missed. Medium. https://medium.com/the-establishment/welcome-to-the-anti-racism-movement-heres-what-you-ve-missed-711089cb7d34
Silverman, J. (2019, December 20) The 1619 Project. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
Williams, P. (1987). Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Fingerpointing as the Law's Response to Racism. U. Miami L. Rev. 42.
YawoBrown. (2015, August 17). The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy. Medium. https://medium.com/@YawoBrown/the-subtle-linguistics-of-polite-white-supremacy-3f83c907ffff

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