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How to examine internalized preferences for whiteness

I'm in therapy trying to understand why I feel more comfortable in all-white spaces than in spaces with other people of color and I hate what that might say about me.

Juana
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The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The unconscious absorption of racial hierarchies can manifest as comfort with proximity to power and discomfort with one's own otherness.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mixed-race identity and belonging?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.