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"Good Niggers": The Struggle to Find Courage, Strength, and Confidence to Fight Internalized Racism and Internalized Dominance
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Joseph, Valerie; Williams, Tanya O. – Democracy & Education, 2008
In this article, the authors relate how they, as two Black, female graduate students and educators, discovered racial self-negation and internalized racial hatred within themselves. Through designing and facilitating a workshop exploring the word "nigger," they concluded that internalized oppression stymied their growth as people and scholars, and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Racial Bias, Change Agents, African American Students