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Encyclopedia of —isms

‘Blank’ (a Dutch word)

clean institutional racism pure skin colour whiteness

means ‘pure’, ‘clean’, ‘fair’ ‘non-tainted’, ‘unwritten’ and ‘beautiful’.

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1001 streams of blackness

B

Encyclopedia of —isms

Black vs black

blackness consequences of slavery ethnicity Nana Adusei-Poku race as a cultural/social construct Touré

“I write “Black” with a capital B because this term addresses first and foremost political and historical dimensions of the concept of Blackness, and relates only indirectly to skin complexion.”
— Adusei-Poku

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