The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives

From the country’s founding through the 2020 summer of Black Lives Matter, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race attempt to erase the brutality of the past and underpin systemic racism in the present. He shows how deeply we need to change our racial narratives to dissolve the myth of Whiteness and fully acknowledge the experiences of Black Americans.