Multiracialism cuts its teeth on the denial of this fundamental social truth…

Multiracialism cuts its teeth on the denial of this fundamental social truth: not simply that antiblackness is longstanding and ongoing but also that it is unlike other forms of racial oppression in qualitative ways—differences of kind, rather than degree, a structural singularity rather than an empirical anomaly.

Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism, (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 245.

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