The "Fact" of Whiteness - SARN Minis #84 Transcript
Hi, I'm Sharon Hurley Hall. Welcome to the Sharon's Anti-Racism Newsletter podcast, SARN Minis.
In Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon talked about "The Fact of Blackness" - the idea that blackness is a construct created by colonisers in opposition to whiteness. I wrote about this in Exploring Shadeism, my book about colourism. But to Fanon's point, whiteness is also a construct and not a "fact".
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