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Title: Over Simplification
Review: I regret having to write a criticism of a fellow Unitarian's efforts on an all too important subject. The title of "Learning to be White..." leads one to believe that the issue discussed is, indeed, racism. When, in fact, Thandeka does little more than use race and racial references describing the human tendency to hang out with the "tribe". Whether the subjects of her study are white, black, hispanic, or other tribal thinking people, the issues of moving outside one's own social group are the same. Black kids bringing home white friends suffer the same shame and threat of abandonment that white kids do. Jewish, Catholic, Italian, Christian; every group who thinks that they have a lock on the good and right life feels threatened by outside strange influences.
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