Newspaper articles about white privilege, whiteness studies, white identity, etc.

New on campus: 'whiteness studies' by V. Dion Haynes of the Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, Saturday, February 28, 1998.

White like me by Ellen Barry, The Boston Phoenix, July 10 - 17, 1997. If there's one new thing happening in race issues in America, it's that whites are being urged to take a look at their own racial identity …

Whiteness studies by Jeb Sharpe, All Things Considered , January 2, 1998. A report on the development of a new academic field that looks at the meaning of 'whiteness' in a race-conscious society. (Scroll down to 7th item in list. Requires the RealAudio Player)

Domestic violence found in stable white families by Patricia Donovan, The State University at Buffalo Reporter, Volume 28, Number 16, January 16, 1997.

'Whiteness studies' an sttempt at healing by John Yemma, The Boston Globe, December 21, 1997.

Conference report: The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Irene J. Nexica, Birgit Rasmussen, Matt Wray, Kellie Stoddart, Pamela Perry, Eric Klinenberg and Jillian Sandell, Bad Subjects.

African Americans have been talking and writing about such disparities for generations. That a white woman was able to get white people to pay attention to them, according to McIntosh, illustrates how black concerns are often discounted. Go!

For their part, some whites feel squeezed by the crush of immigration. Take Kathleen Duncan, 47, who lives on San Jose's East Side. She and several other longtime residents said they feel very little in the county -- from its school curricula to its politicians -- represents white Americans' interests anymore.
"Where I live, everything is built around the Mexicans. In Cupertino, it's for the Chinese," Duncan said.
"There just aren't as many white people around anymore, and that makes me sad." Go!

"The habit of ignoring race is understood to be a graceful, even generous, liberal gesture," she acknowledged, but she urged liberals to abandon the illusion of colorblindness. "My project is an effort to avert the critical gaze from racial object to racial subject; from described and imagined to describer and imaginer; from the server to the served."
-Toni Morrison

"Colorblindness sounds nice, but it is simply not true," says Meck Groot, co-director of the Women's Theological Center in Boston, which last month co-sponsored a national conference in Cambridge on whiteness. "The only color white people don't see is their own." Go!

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