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Loving Whiteness to Death

Sadomasochism, Emotionality, and the Possibility of Humanizing Love1 (with Ricky Lee Allen)

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Feeling White

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There exists a state of emotionality that has propelled human beings to build the Taj Mahal, write constitutions for newly-found nations, and engage in generations of religious warfare. Yet despite the grandeur of such emotion, its everyday saliency and essentiality are often dismissed.

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Matias, C.E. (2016). Loving Whiteness to Death. In: Feeling White. Cultural Pluralism Democracy, Socio-environmental justice & Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-450-3_4

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