I want to tarry within that space of white fear, to exhibit a form of courageous speech that is necessary at this moment in white America. While I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic, I am certain that a crisis, motivated by love, in the very structure of whiteness is necessary. In this presentation, I ask for white people to tarry with courage and love within a deeply uncomfortable space: the reality that there is no "white innocence." My objective is to move through spectacular forms of white racism and then question the ways in which non-spectacular "white innocence" works within the same logics of racist whiteness, whiteness as a binary structure that creates a problematic bifurcation: "Good whites versus Bad whites." James Baldwin speaks of love as removing masks that we are afraid to live without. Registration information below: Abstract for "The Force of Love in the Face of White Supremacy": Co-organized with the Institute of African-American Studies
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