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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

She marries a person of color and has kids of color, yet she imagines she lives in a world that can be or should be race-ignorant. She is likely to believe that American society has a class problem, and if we could just solve for that, then race differences would disappear. She prefers it this way. 31 I hope you caught that.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

They organized a very interesting shop-in at a store that was owned by the head of the grocery store association. And quite quickly, the head of the grocery store association came out in favor of an increase to the minimum wage. “If you ignore race and racism, it’s going to come back up. Interesting observation.