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Claudia Rankine

This person is a professor at Yale University and this person share both personal anecdotes and deeply researched information throughout this book.

John Lucas, Rankine's Husband

This person is an important person in the author's life, sharing one of the author's most intimate personal experiences and figuring in the book in the author's discussion of certain approaches and reactions to racism and racist attitudes.

Édouard Glissant

This author cites the work of this writer and philosopher in the section titled "liminal spaces," and this writer's work deals with the effects of the African diaspora.

White Supremacist Groups

The author discusses the various negative impacts of these kinds of collective groups of people throughout American history, from centuries ago right up through the modern era.

Various White Men in Airports/On Airplanes

The author undertakes sometimes random conversations with these kinds of people in specific situations throughout the...

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