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Crystal Marie Fleming: How to Be Less Stupid About Race (2018)

How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the …

How to Be Less Stupid About Race

Brilliant, affirming, clear, concise. This is the antiracist primer I'd like to give to everyone I know.

Notes: I wouldn't equate being bullied for wearing 'ridiculous' Pentecostal garb with Islamophobic aggression, nor imply that headscarves represent nothing but religious oppression. Crystal also seems to have a grudge against the idea of an immigrant work ethic as if it's a dominant paradigm that erases the hard work of others?

Also: This is Dr. Fleming's critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates' work. In her own work I admire that she's humbly open about her path of continuous learning, that she's started a conscious process of decolonising her scholarship, that she walks the walk and is ready to adjust her ideas with expanded information, and—she doesn't pull any punches.