When whites react defensively to people who call them out on their bigotry, they are struggling, in part, to reconcile themselves with a loss of white privilege, Scot Nakagawa writes in a piece at Changelab, which examines racism through a variety of lenses. I’ve often pondered the question, why are white people so touchy about being…

Scot Nakagawa, writing at Race Files, argues that anti-black racism is the fulcrum of white supremacy. I’m often asked why I’ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism. .. So there’s most of my answer. I’m sure I do suffer from internalized…