Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America by George Yancy

Author:George Yancy [Yancy, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442258341
Google: TElNDQEACAAJ
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-11-15T23:56:32.083262+00:00

Chapter 5

Exposing the Serious World of Whiteness through Frederick Douglass’s Autobiographical Reflections

Trained from the cradle up, to think and feel that their masters are superior, and invested with a sort of sacredness, there are few [enslaved Blacks] who can outgrow or rise above the control which that sentiment exercises.

—Frederick Douglass

Blacks are often confronted, in American life, with such devastating examples of the white descent from dignity; devastating not only because of the enormity of white pretensions, but because this swift and graceless descent would seem to indicate that white people have no principles whatever.

—James Baldwin

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