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Chapter 1: What Wasn't Said - Chapter 9: White Superiority

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Irving, Debby. Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Elephant Room Press, 2014. E-book.

• The epigraph of the text is a quote by James Baldwin, who wrote, “If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see” (7).

• Chapter 1: What Wasn’t Said begins on page 14.

• Irving recalls asking her mother what had happened to all of the American Indians in the United States.

• Irving was five years old at the time.

• Her mother told her that the Indians had been sweet people, but that when they began to drink alcohol, their people had become enraged and violent.

• Irving asserts that her mother and father had “sought to protect [her] siblings and [her] from anything upsetting” (15).

• However, her...

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