... , or educationally and economically privileged). We have also critiqued culture and history in these terms, articulating at least some of the consequences of such constructed oppositions and exclusions. For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its Constitution to ... Americanness. And it shows. (6) Thus, racial opposition--though misrecognized by whites--has allowed for the creation of a self-narrative of the (so-called) white race ...

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