In "liminal spaces i," what is significant about the conversation that Rankine has with the man on the plane? How is this an example of white privilege?

The reader should recall that Rankine suggests the man did not recall the racial tension in his hometown because it did not have a significant effect on his life growing up. As a white person, he observed racism but thought little of it, to the extent that he barely remembered it many years later. Rankine declares that "To not remember is perhaps not to feel touched by events that don't interfere with your livelihood" (55). He is privileged to have been so minimally affected.

Discuss the exercise involving a racially insensitive joke in "evolution." What is the reader meant to understand from this anecdote?

The reader should explain that the race of the person making the joke not being identified indicates...