As I have argued elsewhere in this volume, whiteness has th… - Tressie McMillan Cottom

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As I have argued elsewhere in this volume, whiteness has the political power to be elastic. Originating as it does not from nation or kin but from the primordial ooze of capitalism, whiteness can only be defined by state power.

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