Edina grapples with legacy of whiteness
The thing I most appreciate about Chad Montrie's book, Whiteness in Plain View, out last year from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, is its b...
The thing I most appreciate about Chad Montrie's book, Whiteness in Plain View, out last year from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, is its broad scope. Too often when discussing Minnesotan racism, we focus only on the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, which have long been home to the majority of the state's people of color. That's a fine and necessary step, but Montrie's book casts a welcome wider net. He includes chapters detailing racism in Austin, Duluth, and the Twin Cities suburbs of Bloomington and Edina, expanding the scope of the conversation to include places where people of color rarely live, in addition to where they do.