How White Women Got White
James Baldwin told us how white men became white, but he left white women out of it. Of white men he said:
"White men-from Norway, for example, where they were Norwegians -became white: by slaughtering the cattle, poisoning the wells, torching the houses, massacring Native Americans, raping Black women."
For whatever reason, Baldwin, in that instance, didn’t tell us how white women became…