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@nils_gilman 3/ "... their desire for freedom and full membership in a newly forming democratic society." facebook.com/notes/nick-routledge/who-literally-created-whitenessblackness-as-concept-and-sense-of-identity-why-an/900288480055143/

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @blackpuritan @stewartdantec Here’s a perspective from John A. Powell: “...At its inception, then, the creation of whiteness was a deliberate strategy to keep poor Europeans, mainly English, and Africans from uniting.” Perhaps the ‘fusion politics’ of @UniteThePoor represents a return to a common identity?Quoted by@blackpuritan @stewartdantec Here’s a perspective from John A. Powell: “...At its inception, then, the creation of whiteness was a deliberate strategy to keep poor Europeans, mainly English, and Africans from uniting.” Perhaps the ‘fusion politics’ of @UniteThePoor represents a return to a common identity?Quoted by@stewartdantec Have you got to John A. Powell's, Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society, Indiana University Press, 2012. Pages 151-152? Blessings, as always.