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Selected Resources

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Websites

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. (Downloads as a Word Document)

Who Invented White People? A Talk on the Occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1998 (PDF file) 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.

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.

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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Books

Adams, M., Bell, L., & Griffin, P. (Eds.) (1997). Teaching for diversity and social justice: A sourcebook. New York: Routledge.

Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W., Castaneda, R., Hackman, H., Peters, M., & Zúñiga, X. (Eds.) (2000). Readings for diversity and social justice: An anthology on racism, antisemitism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and classism. New York: Routledge.

Berlak, A., & Moyenda, S. (2001). Taking it personally: Racism in the classroom from kindergarten to college. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Derman-Sparks, L., & Phillips, C. (1997). Teaching/Learning anti-racism: A developmental approach. New York: Teacher's College Press.

Fine, M., Weis, L., Powell, L., & Wong L. (Eds.). (1997). Off white: Reading on race, power, and society. New York: Routledge.

Fox, H. (2001). "When race breaks out": Conversations about race and racism in college classrooms. New York: Peter Lang.

Gerschick, T. (1995). Should and can a white, heterosexual, middle-class man teach students about social inequality and oppression? One person's experience and reflections. In D. Schoem, L. Frankel, X. Zúñiga, & E. Lewis, Multicultural teaching in the university (pp. 200-207). Westport, CT: Praeger,.

Goodman, D. (2001). Promoting diversity and social justice: Educating people from privileged groups. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Hitchcock, J. (2001). Unraveling the white cocoon. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.

Howard, G. (1999). We can't teach what we don't know: White teachers, multiracial schools. New York: Teacher's College Press.

Johnson, A. (2001). Privilege, power, and difference. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Landsman, J. (2001). A white teacher talks about race. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Schoem, D., & Hurtado, S. (Eds.). (2001). Intergroup dialogue: Deliberative democracy in school, college, community, and workplace. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Schoem, D., Frankel, L., Zúñiga, X., & Lewis, E. (Eds.) Multicultural teaching in the university. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Wijeyesinghe, C., & Jackson III, B. (Eds.). (2001). New perspectives on racial identity development: A theoretical and practical analogy. New York: New York University Press.

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