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The post-racial is a mythical idea that ironically shelters and helps to sustain the endemic nature of racism in the United States (Bell, 2002). Every year since the landmark Brown v. Board decision, the United States has become markedly more politically correct in its articulations.
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Escoffery-Runnels, V. (2016). Challenging Whiteness and the Violence that Follows. In: Hartlep, N.D., Hayes, C. (eds) Unhooking from Whiteness. Constructing Knowledge. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-527-2_11
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