Introduction To Part II: The Courage of Character and Commitment versus the Cowardliness of Comfortable Contentment

Abstract

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. color mar-ginalization; sexual oppression; misrepresentation; homophobia; transphobia; and racism— we clearly see the multilayers of exclusions ranging from micro- moments of relatively naïve expressions of racism by library professionals and professors to the accumulative macro power of a society ignoring the actual viable cultural aspects of a community into near invisibility . Natarajan deconstructs the whiteness of their personal experiences.