Courageous Conversations About Race (2006) describes this idea: In terms of our own racial experience, we may have a limited understanding not only of the lives of people of a different race, but even of how our own personal racial identities impact our own lives. White people struggle to recognize that they have a racialized existence and that their color, indeed, affords them privilege and opportunity in our society. Likewise, people of color may distrust the motives of White people collectively, without actually discussing this distrust with individual White people in their lives. To
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