Psycho-spiritual ascent, witness detachment

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a sense of my own awareness of where I stand in the complex, ongoing conversation of racial justice. I hope to convey the deeply personal reasons for embarking on this study and offer my perspective as a White mother to Black-biracial boys and partner to a Black man. Further, my perspective informs my standpoint from the margins in that I am neither fully invested in whiteness nor can I ethically appropriate blackness. I hope to illustrate how I exist in tension with a culture of whiteness and "thinking Black.