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The Center for the Study of White American Culture (the Center) supports cultural exploration and self-discovery among white Americans. It encourages a dialogue among all racial and cultural groups concerning the role of white American culture in the larger American society. The Center operates on the premise that knowledge of one's own racial background and culture is essential when learning how to relate to people of other racial and cultural groups. We believe the task of building genuine and authentic relationships across racial and cultural lines is crucial to the future well-being of America. Toward these ends the Center actively encourages participation by white Americans and Americans of color, women and men, alike. The Center maintains that the views of both insiders and outsiders contribute to understanding a culture. The Center also acknowledges that gender, class and ethnic differences are intertwined with racial ones, and must be explored as part of a complete study of racial and cultural difference. |
There are few resources that focus on the need for white men to learn about their own identity. History books do not tell about the effects of slavery on the slave owners. They do not suggest that white people's fears when they see two or more black men walk or drive through white neighborhoods may be the same fears that haunted white Southerners after slave-uprisings such as Denmark Vesey's plot in 1822 and Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831. Nor do they describe how being part of the race that has dominated and oppressed Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Native Americans, and other people of color on this continent affects individual members of that race. Oron South 'The Learning Problem,' in The Diversity Factor |
