Overcoming Whiteness: A Matter for Imagination, Not Law

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Whiteness [is] the ownership of the Earth forever and ever, Amen.                         

–W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk

whiteness is the world’s most dangerous cult today.                                               

–Pankaj Mishra, The Religion of Whiteness

Modern neuroscience solidly supports Freud’s notion that many of our conscious thoughts are complex rationalizations for the flood of instincts, reflexes, motives...