A Study of Asian American Issues in the United States - Nicoline Pedersen - Krista Celo - Eden Stilman - Seren Ventullo

"Racial Groove"

"The massive awakening of the instinctual human need for justice and for freedom"

GEORGE KAT S I AF I CAS

Despite apparent cultural and social differences between the groups, the transpacific culture of liberation united Black Americans and the Japanese population in a common goal: The eradication of white supremacy and emancipation from the oppression that their racial identity confines them to.

Collective action against a world dictated by whiteness is necessary in order to stimulate change on a global scale. Simply put, there is power in numbers. Whiteness, and the whole notion of race, is a fabrication that intends to stimulate divides between different social identities. Despite any perceived differences, non-white social groups have all been confronted by oppression. Only a united movement can combat the long-standing hierarchy of the possessive investment in whiteness.

" CULTURE OF LIBERATION " Cedric Robinson

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