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        @SlandRev He acknowledges "danger of exaggerating a kind of passive victimhood" and "damaged black psyche" (42) #DBD
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      @SlandRev He stresses that "the central pathology is a *white* pathology intent on animalization," & that slavery evoked resistance. #DBD
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    @SlandRev But the inability of the first wave of emancipations to put suspicions of dehumanization fully to rest crucial to his arg. #DBD
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      @SlandRev The suspicions of whites more important in this than those of any "self-doubting" blacks (to use Davis's word) #DBD
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        @SlandRev I've stressed his treatment of theme of "self-doubting" in my tweets b/c it's theme that I've had most trouble reconciling. #DBD
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          @SlandRev B/c it definitely struck me, on first read, as evoking shades of Elkins. But on closer read I think Davis is far more subtle. #DBD
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