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This Time, 'Dear White People' Is Not So Much About Them

Season two of Netflix's hit show, with its incessant and incisive look at race at a fictional Ivy League college, doesn't really focus much on white people at all.
Actresses Logan Browning (left) and Ashley Blaine Featherson appear in a scene from the Netflix show <em>Dear White People</em>.

Don't be distracted by the title of Netflix's latest, button-pushing TV series, Dear White People.

Because, one look at this insightful, irreverent examination of race and society at an Ivy League college reveals it really doesn't focus much on white folks at all.

Indeed, the title is a bit of a head

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