#30: Whiteness (Dr. Dawn-Marie McIntosh)

What is Whiteness? Why does it feel like such a scary word? And what does it have to do with the War on Drugs? Dawn-Marie McIntosh joins me for a conversation about power. The United States was built upon the institution of White Supremacy, but the slavery and murder of black folks was eventually replaced by a system of segregation much more insidious than white supremacy. Whiteness is the Jim Crow South in contemporary language. Its the same rules and laws, now internalized so that we no longer need them written down. Support the show