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How Shame Plays a Productive Role in Racial Justice

Rejecting “the hollowness of American life”

March 11, 2021 • by Benjamin P. Davis
_____ I want to suggest here that shame can be more than a feeling that ends in self-judgment. It can also be a spur to live differently. In other words, shame is not simply, as is sometimes asserted, a political dead end. On the contrary, shame can be politically productive in ...
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