"How Elusive the Language and Epistemology of Race Were and Still Are"

"In 2017, Thomas Chatterton Williams wrote in The New York Times that we should not assume that the 'original sin—white supremacy—explains everything.' He was cautioning against the hierarchy of oppressions, what Audre Lorde warned of decades earlier. All the familiar categories matter: not just race but also gender and class, region and religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation, law and politics, capitalism and corporatism, globalism and militarism, science and art. They all play a role in explaining modern America." 

Nancy Isenberg at The American Scholar argues that "[w]hiteness does have a place in understanding the past and present, but its limitations need to be recognized."