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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.
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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.
Published April 1, 2016Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeResearchWhite Allies + InstitutionsWebsite -
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.
Published May 30, 2020Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + InstitutionsVideo -
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.
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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.
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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.
Published July 23, 2020Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + InstitutionsPodcast -
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.
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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.
Published March 24, 2017Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + InstitutionsVideo -
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.
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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.
Published May 27, 2020Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + InstitutionsArticle -
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
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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.
Published July 2, 2020Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeWhite Allies + InstitutionsArticle