How to teach about whiteness and white culture - advice, organizations, and publications.

Advice

What should white people do? by Linda Martín Alcoff, Hypatia, Volume 13, Number 3. Explores three approaches toward engaging white people in a proactive antiracist stance that amounts "to more than self-criticism."

Teaching about whiteness by Gregory Jay, English Department, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Why teach about whiteness? Approaches to whiteness, questions to ask: Exercises, Activities, Projects, Inquiries.

Educational Justice Resource Listing Page Taking on White Privilege Articles and links of interest to educators.

Organizations

The New Abolitionist Society The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race -- in other words, to abolish the privileges of the white skin.

American Truths Offers dramatic audio presentations quoting historic documents that contrast the values, beliefs, and behaviors of indigenous and immigrant cultures, and reveal the roots of today's controversies.

Recovering Racists Network Among its aims are to give support to people who believe and are ready to admit that by growing up in a racist culture, there is no way they could have avoided becoming racists themselves…

Publications

Birthrights How White People Can Challenge Racism. Confronting the Entitlements of White Skin.

Race Traitor Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.

White Out: The Outing of Whiteness by K. Bradford, (Film announcement), NOTE: Contact information given in the announcement is no longer working.

Every individual, I would argue, needs to feel a connection to community, to a history, and to a human project larger than his or her own life. Go!

Silence about whiteness lets everyone continue to harbor prejudices and misconceptions. Go!

We believe that white people are privilege to a number of social entitlements based on the color of their skin. As they stand today, these entitlements are exclusionary, yet accepted by most white people as the norm. Go!

The white race is a historically constructed social formation. It consists of all those who partake of the privileges of the white skin in this society. Its most wretched members share a status higher, in certain respects, than that of the most exalted persons excluded from it, in return for which they give their support to a system that degrades them. Go!

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