Apr 27, 2020
“How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Chenjerai Kumanyika puts that question to host John Biewen, as they revisit an unfinished conversation from a previous episode. Part 7 of our series, Seeing White. Download a transcript of the episode. Composite image: Chenjerai Kumanyika, left
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“We observe that another component of a desire to play Indian is a settler desire to be made innocent, to find some mercy or relief in the face of the relentlessness of settler guilt and haunting... Directly and indirectly benefitting from the erasure and assimilation of Indigenous peoples is a difficult reality for settlers to accept” (“Decolonization is not a metaphor,” 9).
