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Dubois’ Views on “Veil” of Blackness Explains White Suburban Micro-Aggressions
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
04 May 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Dubois’ Views on “Veil” of Blackness Explains White Suburban Micro-Aggressions

Upscale Black mothers who moved to Detroit’s white suburbs in search of better schools for their kids are suffering “battle fatigue” from constant struggles with their neighbors, according to Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury, a professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, who conducted a study titled, “State of the Art: Living Within the Veil.” “The veil is a mechanism for protecting the Black psyche,” she said, “but also a mechanism for sustaining racial oppression.”

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