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Selected Web Resources

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
  Classic article on the topic of white privilege. This excerpted essay is reprinted from the Winter 1990 issue of "Independent School."
  
  
• Vision, Privilege, and the Limits of Tolerance by Cris Cullinan
  Article by Cris Cullinan of the University of Oregon. From the "Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education" Vol. 1, No. 2, September 1999.
  
  
• The Benefits of Being White Exercise by Paul Kivel
  Exercise on white privilege that could be used in a classroom setting.
  
  
• When We Talk Among Ourselves: White-on-white focus groups discuss race relations by Jeff Hitchcock & Alfonso Associates, Inc.
  Homepage for a 1995 report of focus groups talking about being white.
  
  
• Diversity vs. White Privilege: An Interview with Christine Sleeter
  Christine Sleeter is a professor at California State University-Monterey Bay and co-editor of the book "Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference." The interview is from the online edition of "Rethinking Schools: An Urban Education Journal" Volume 15, No. 2 - Winter 2000 / 2001
  
  
• Teaching About Whiteness by Gregory Jay
  Suggestions for teaching about whiteness from a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Includes discussion questions and suggested activities.
  
  
• Who Invented White People? A Talk on the Occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1998 by Gregory Jay
  Discussion on the topic of whiteness.
  
  
• White Privilege Shapes the U.S. by Robert Jensen
  Discussion of privilege by a professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Article first appeared in the "Baltimore Sun," July 19, 1998.
  
  
• More Thoughts on Why the System of White Privilege is Wrong by Robert Jensen
  Follow-up essay to "White Privilege Shapes the U.S." From "The Capitol Times," Vol. 2 No. 42, Austin, Texas, Published September 16, 1999
  
  
• Being colorblind does not offset innate advantages of white privilege by Robert Jensen
  A more recent article by Robert Jenson, from the January 8, 2001 edition of "The Business Journal of Kansas City".
  
  
• School Shootings and White Denial by Tim Wise
  Discussion of the school shootings at Santee, California. The author is a well-known speaker on issues of diversity and affirmative action. From AlterNet: March 6, 2001.
  
  
• What Kind of White Person Are You? Written by Jeff Hitchcock
  Editorial written by the author of Unraveling the White Cocoon.
  
  
• Being White in a Predominantly White University by Joyce M. Taylor and Robert L. Ferrell
  Adapted From: Conley and Davidoff, "Being White at the University of Maryland."
  
  
• How We Are White By Gary Howard from the Southern Poverty Law Journal, "Teaching Tolerance"
  Essay from the author of the book We Can't Teach What We Don't Know.
  
  
• White Like Me by Ellen Barry
  First of an eight-part series of essays on what it means to be white. Includes links to the subsequent articles.
  
  
• Being white and male is not always priviliged by James P. Blow
  A "Letter to the Editor" from the February 13, 1996 issue of The Online Daily of the University of Washington provides a perspective often described by white people.
  
  
• Deconstructing Whiteness: A Select Bibliography by Gregory Jay
  A good place to start for those looking for printed resources. Collected by a professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  
  
• Using a Feminist Pedagogy as a Male Teacher: The Possibilities of a Partial and Situated Perspective by Steven P. Schacht.
  Fasinating article about a white, heterosexual male's attempt to adopt and use feminist pedagogy.

 

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