Crossing the Color Line Quotes

“Being white-unless you are an out-and-out racist-usually does not include any consciousness of whiteness as a social signifier, as a state with meanings of its own. Because whiteness is treated as the norm, identical to humanity, whiteness does not get marked as a category in most white people's lives. We”
― Maureen T. Reddy, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture

“inequality and commitment to its end alongside almost total lack of awareness of the meanings of whiteness-and it is, it is one that many whites live with every day, with no discomfort.
It was only when I stopped being white, in some sense, that I began to understand what whiteness means in America. Under South African apartheid, the white partner of a black person was reclassified as "colored": legally, in other words, there was no such thing as a white/black marriage. Although we do not live under apartheid, a de facto reclassification happens here, too, I”
― Maureen T. Reddy, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture