https://contemporaryracism.org/3733/talking-about-race-performativity/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sat, 12 May 2018 01:02:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/3733/talking-about-race-performativity/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Sat, 12 May 2018 01:02:55 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3733#comment-975 I think your point that “The privilege white people have in these conversations is to not have the conversation.” is really interesting. Because we are living in a white dominant society, so white people are able to regared them as representative of normal human being. Unless they meet people of color they never need to care and talk about any racail stuff.

]]> https://contemporaryracism.org/3733/talking-about-race-performativity/comment-page-1/#comment-967 Fri, 11 May 2018 04:28:24 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3733#comment-967 Really insightful piece, Tovia. Going off of the last question, I would like to believe that an individual can invoke their own voice into the conversation, but the confines of these three protocols makes it difficult to invoke this voice in an everyday conversation. I am hopeful to find more opportunities to have discourse and more brave spaces, like that of our class this semester, in my everyday life by surrounding myself with mindful and openminded individuals.

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