Jill Nagle
Feb 20, 2022

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I appreciate the history here. I learned a lot! I also appreciate the specificity. Along those lines, I have been following @Dr. Cleo Manago's lead in referring to people of African, Asian, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, European, Middle-Eastern descent, and so on. Also, "peopled coded as white." Interesting point as well about capitalizing white to indicate racialization. I have deliberately not capitalized "white" since to me, whiteness indicates a blanching out, if you will, of indigeneity under an artificially constructed rubric, whereas Black, for example, refers specifically to people of African descent in the U.S. (and possibly elsewhere, but definitely not everywhere -- for example, many dark-complected Africans do not consider themselves "Black.") I'm not sure racialization for the purpose of oppression merits capitalization.

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Jill Nagle
Jill Nagle

Written by Jill Nagle

Working on the forthcoming book Skin in the Game: How White People Benefit from Dismantling White Supremacy. Catalyzing at EvolutionaryWorkplace.com.

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