Ordinary Notes

by Christina Sharpe

Heath’s recollection reveals the way that the lessons that an institution imagines it is imparting—or the ones that we imagine the institution imagining it is imparting—like racism is bad or look how far we’ve come—is not the only, or even, perhaps, the primary, lesson or note to take hold. The imagination of whiteness is also at work, undoing the lesson, restructuring, and constantly renewing antiblack racism.