DWR Resource Library

The DWR Resource Library is a comprehensive and searchable database of resources and tools for dance workers and entities covering a wide array of topics.

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    White Supremacy Culture

    Tema Okun

    This website is a long-time dream finally bearing fruit, a needed remix of the widely circulated article White Supremacy Culture originally written and published in 1999.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    Whiteness Project

    Whitney Dow

    Whiteness Project is conducting interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked about their relationship to, and their understanding of, their own whiteness. Each video interview is paired with a statistic that provides a greater societal context and offers an opportunity for self-reflection by the audience on their own thoughts about race.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeResearchWhite Allies + Institutions
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    Robin DiAngelo on “White Fragility”

    Amanpour and Company

    Michel Martin interviews Robin DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility,” to talk about what she recognized as her own unconscious bias.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    Seeing White

    Scene on Radio

    Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    Teaching While White Podcast

    Teaching While White

    Teaching While White (TWW) seeks to move the conversation forward on how to be consciously, intentionally, anti-racist in the classroom.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    Nice White Parents

    The New York Times

    “Nice White Parents” looks at the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    Black History for White People

    Red Circle

    Our goal is simple—educate white people on black history. #BHforWP is a multiethnic collective dedicated to loving Black and Brown people by educating, resourcing, and challenging white people to actively participate in racial justice.

    Black + African DiasporaRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    Claudia Rankine: On Whiteness

    Claudia Rankine, HowlRound

    Given that the concept of racial hierarchy is a strategy employed to support white dominance, whiteness is an important aspect of any conversation about race. This talk will make visible that which has been intentionally presented as inevitable so that we can move forward into more revelatory conversations about race.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    A Word for White People

    Adrienne Maree Brown

    You’re scared, saddened, defensive, guilty, and unsure of who to be if you aren’t the default superior. So you make choices towards or away from or against your own highest self.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    An Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy

    Nana Chinara

    Nana Chinara’s details her experiences of white supremacy culture in arts organizations and provides suggestions for change.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    Can You Hear Me Now?

    International Association of Blacks in Dance

    An Open Letter Sign-On to the White American Dance Community surrounding institutional racism

    Black + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions
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    An Open Letter to White Nonprofits

    Ysabel Y. González

    For every non-profit who’s made a solidarity statement standing with the Black Lives Matter movement: here are ten calls to action.

    Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + Institutions

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