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  • Blackness Is The Fulcrum

    Blackness Is The Fulcrum RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-05-04 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab I’m often asked why I’ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism. That might well be true since who doesn’t suffer…

  • Afraid of the Dark

    Afraid of the Dark RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-10-15 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab Reports of rapid demographic change in favor of people of color in the U.S. seem to have caused a reaction among many whites bordering on panic. Explosive increases in participation in white nationalist groups,…

  • Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy

    Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy GRITtv 2012-08-24 Laura Flanders, Host Scot Nakagawa, Senior Parner ChangeLab Race, according to activist and writer Scot Nakagawa, was an idea created originally to justify the enslavement of a people, and has displayed pernicious staying power in the centuries since. That’s why, as Nakagawa explains in this…

  • The Durability of Race

    The Durability of Race RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-10-05 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab There’s been a lot of talk lately about the death of racism. Many believe that as the global demographics change and Generation Y rises, racism will fade in significance. Some even suggest that what…