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Codes of Exclusion
The Legal Protections of White Privilege
LEFT: A brass coin created and distributed in 1940 by Hugh T. Fisher, a former member of the Kansas senate, to stimulate “democratic thinking” in Kansans. RIGHT: Ferguson youth activist Dontey Carter. “This isn’t just a stand for Michael Brown. This is a stand for everybody that needs justice. The officers need to protect and serve, not reject and keep us scared. We need this and that is why as young people this is our civil rights movement. We will take it all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to.”
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Issue: Winter 2018 / Volume 94/4
Published: December 13, 2018
Benjamin Rasmussen is a Denver-based photographer whose work has been shown at the Annenberg Space for Photography. In 2010 he received an award from Pictures of the Year International, and he was included on the 2011 and 2012 lists of Flash Forward–Emerging Photographers.
Rebecca Onion is a staff writer at Slate and the author of Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States (North Carolina, 2016). Onion holds a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin and is a visiting scholar in the department of history at Ohio University.