Racialized Credibility
Why are white women’s scams fascinating, but Black women’s successes suspicious?
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February 2022. Boston. The sidewalks had turned to glass.
I slipped hard walking around a pond and spent a week in the dark, nursing a concussion with a blanket over my head. I had moved to Boston a year earlier from the Bay Area and I was still adjusting. The cold felt personal. The smiles were tight. Everything seemed harder than it needed to be.
The first show I watched when I could finally look at a screen again was Inventing Anna. I don’t remember choosing it; I had never heard the name Anna Delvey, but there the icon was, glowing at the top of Netflix like a cultural assignment I’d missed. I was supposed to be limiting screen time, but I kept watching.
And then Googling.
And then muttering: She just said she had money, and people…believed her?