Dionna Richardson

Dionna Richardson

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Dionna Richardson is currently a Visiting Professor of Non-Western History at the University of Mary Washington and a doctoral candidate at the University of Akron. She is in the final stages of completing her dissertation on the experiences and identity formation of migrant Indian women in the British colonial Caribbean.

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If You See Something, Say Something: Imperial Origins of White Women’s Modern Racial Profiling

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In 2018, confrontations between white women and people of color in the United States have become viral news bytes emblematic of widespread systemic racial profiling. Journalists, attorneys, civil rights activists, and armchair social media commentators point to the cases involving BBQ Becky, Permit Patty, and Golfcart Gail as examples of deep-seated beliefs in white female… Read more →