Can ‘Whiteness’ Ever Be Equated With Dispossession?

**************************** Excerpted from a longer piece by Hua Hsu as published in The New Yorker a little over a year ago and relevant today for obvious reasons On the morning of September 4, 1957, a fifteen-year-old girl named Elizabeth Eckford walked toward the entrance of Little Rock Central High School. It was among the first high schools in a major Southern city to admit a class of black students, in partial accommodation of the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision calling for the desegre