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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing,--a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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This quote discusses the modern emergence of racial identity, particularly the concept of whiteness in contemporary society.
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