"Recently, I read a tweet by the poet Natalie Diaz, who asked, Why must writers of color always have to talk about whiteness? Why center it in our work when it's centered everywhere else?"
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Educators from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen academics from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesNative American activists
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Cathy Park Hong "The End of White Innocence" in Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020)
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