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Black and White

A deep dive into how race was invented, weaponized through policy, and baked into American neighborhoods, schools, and wealth itself.

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What This Book Covers

  1. Prologue
  2. Chapter One - Monkeys in the Mirror
  3. Chapter Two - The Color of the Sun
  4. Chapter Three - Bloodlines and Gods
  5. Chapter Four - The Birth of Race
  6. Chapter Five - The Science of Supremacy
  7. Chapter Six - Slavery, Cotton, and Cash
  8. Chapter Seven - Apart but Not Equal
  9. Chapter Eight - Segregation by Design
  10. Chapter Nine - The Mask of Progress
  11. Chapter Ten - The Global Color Line
  12. Chapter Eleven - Race Realism and the Internet Sewer
  13. Chapter Twelve - What Are You, Really?
  14. Chapter Thirteen - The Lie That Looked Like Truth

Excerpt

PROLOGUE WE’RE ALL JUST stardust in skin suits. That’s the truth, stripped down. Peel back the outer layer, and there’s no such thing as white. Or Black. Or brown. Or red, or yellow, or whatever other box they tried to fit us in. It’s all just melanin. It’s all just light and pigment. It’s all just survival. So how did something so meaningless become everything? Why do we organize our cities around it? Our laws? Our borders? Our money, our power, and our fear? How did “race,” a word that didn’t even exist a few centuries ago, become the most dangerous idea humans ever believed? It didn’t come from science. It didn’t come from God. It didn’t even come from hate, at first. It came from story....

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