Jonathan’s book Reinventing Racism: Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Racial Inequality is forthcoming. To join the mailing list for preorders, write to [email protected] to Jonathan and read his correspondence with Matt McManus:https://letter.wiki/JonathanChurch/conversations

Jonathan’s 2019 Areo article “An Economy Theory of Whiteness” is here: https://areomagazine.com/2019/11/26/an-economic-theory-of-whiteness/

You can find more of Jonathan’s writing here:http://www.jonathandavidchurch.com/

Write to me here: https://letter.wiki/IonaItalia/conversations

Further References

Robin DiAngelo, Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2016):https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566247/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/

Glenn Loury, “How to Mend Affirmative Action” (1997):https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/cvandbio/How%20to%20Mend%20Affirmative%20Action.pdf

For more on the scholar John A. Powell, see:https://belonging.berkeley.edu/johnpowell

Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (1989)https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf

Cheryl I. Harris, Whiteness as Property (1993):https://sph.umd.edu/sites/default/files/files/Harris_Whiteness%20as%20Property_106HarvLRev-1.pdf

For more on the scholar Lawrence Blum, see:http://www.lawrenceblum.net/

Lawrence Blum, “White Privilege: A Mild Critique” (2008):https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1477878508095586

For more on the Coase theorum:https://www.britannica.com/topic/environmental-economics/The-Coase-theorem

Coleman Hughes, “The Racism Treadmill” (2018):https://quillette.com/2018/05/14/the-racism-treadmill/

Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The Nightmare from which Ta Nehisi-Coates Is Trying not to Awake” in Areo 2017:https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/17/the-nightmare-from-which-ta-nehisi-coates-is-trying-not-to-awake/

Eric Kaufmann, Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities (2018):https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306352/whiteshift/9780141986630.html

Razib Khan’s 2018 Areo article, “Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future”: https://areomagazine.com/2018/11/28/why-there-will-not-be-a-beige-future-skin-color-genetics-race-and-racism/

Timestamps

3:35 The central thesis of Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility8:05 The Kafka trap11:39 The reification of whiteness17:40 The Implicit As sociation Test31:23 The legacy of historical racism32:20 Racism vs. racial inequality34:52 Preferential vs. developmental affirmative action39:00 African-Americans and the race burden41:35 What is racism?44:00 Majorities and minorities46:32 Jonathan’s economic theory of racial injustice1:09:36 Will pervasive societal racism always be with us?