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Debby Irving

This person is the writer of the book entitled Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. This person grew up in an affluent household in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. This person uses various episodes from her own life to shed light on the idea of white privilege and its terrible consequences for people of color.

The Writer's Mother

This person is featured often over the course of the text, perhaps most prominently in the very first chapter. There, the writer of the memoir deeply examines this person's answer to her five-year-old daughter's question about American Indians. The writer performs the examination of this person's answer with the intention of using it as a larger demonstration of white privilege and its methods of remaining invisible to all those who bear it.

Bruce

This person is the husband of the text's writer. The writer...

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