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Unit 6
Grades 11-12
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The White Normative Gaze and Its Shadows: Respectability, Authenticity, and the Politics of Black Identity

Previous lessons in this unit have already established that colorism — differential treatment based on skin tone within a racial group — was deliberately engineered into Black community life through the plantation hierarchy and continues to operate through digital algorithms and…

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