Two trending videos on Tiktok reignite conversations about the horrors inflicted due to white women tears.
Historically, interpretations of classical art are based on preconceived notions of anti-blackness when whiteness is seen as the standard.
But race is a social construct, and social constructs have social histories. Our modern understanding of race was created at a specific historical juncture in colonial Virginia. Prior to that, it did not exist.
