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There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black

  • Written by Alisha Gaines, Associate Professor of English, Florida State University
imageSince the mid-20th century, a handful of white journalists have tried to understand the complexity of the Black experience through donning a costume.Reg Burkett/Express/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what it was like to be Black.”

This wish is different from...

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