The point is not to interpret whiteness but to abolish it
Talk given at the conference "The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness" Berkeley, California, April 11-13, 1997.
Now that White Studies has become an academic industry, with its own dissertation mill, conference, publications, and no doubt soon its junior faculty, it is time for the abolitionists to declare where they stand in relation to it. Abolitionism is first of all a political project: the abolitionists study whiteness in order to abolish it.



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