28 Days
The ostensible length of the challenge presented by the work detailed in the book, this span also correlates with a lunar month and the traditionally understood duration of the human uterine cycle. It emerges from and reinforces the author’s background and situation, and it helps to divorce the book from strict adherence to Western European paradigms.
White
The unmarked and so privileged social group that enjoys dominance. Although it is fluid in nature, with different groups being included or excluded, it is traditionally associated with purity and thus with being the standard to which others are compared.
Black
By contrast with the unmarked and privileged white that enjoys dominance, the most marked and least privileged, it is traditionally and erroneously associated with impurity and ignorance, in the most need of correction. The Manichean allegory thus indicated facilitates the exercise of white supremacy, necessitating the corrective measures...
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