13250612, The White Space Posted by dapitts08, Sat Apr-14-18 02:55 PM
Have yall read this? It came across my twitter feed a few minutes ago and am reading it now. It already feels like it is going to be a life changing read for me. As someone who often finds herself in the white space, sometimes by choice and other time by necessity....this paper really resonates so far.
This right here is so accurate...wow .... just wow.
When present in the white space, blacks reflexively note the proportion of whites to blacks, or may look around for other blacks with whom to commune if not bond, and then may adjust their comfort level accordingly; when judging a setting as too white, they can feel uneasy and consider it to be informally “off limits.” For whites, however, the same settings are generally regarded as unremarkable, or as normal, taken-for-granted reflections of civil society.
https://sociology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/pages_from_sre-11_rev5_printer_files.pdf
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