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Reni Eddo-Lodge: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race (2019, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc) 4 stars

In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the …

“Colour-blindness is a childish, stunted analysis of racism. It starts and ends at ‘discriminating against a person because of the colour of their skin is bad’, without any accounting for the ways in which structural power manifests in these exchanges. With an analysis so immature, this definition of racism is often used to silence people of colour attempting to articulate the racism we face. When people of colour point this out, they’re accused of being racist against white people, and the accountability avoidance continues. Colour-blindness does not accept the legitimacy of structural racism or a history of white racial dominance.”

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