Resources
OUR FAVORITE 11 ARTICLES
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | Peggy McIntosh
8 Things White People Really Need To Understand About Race | Everyday Feminism
How To Go From Being Non-Racist To Anti-Racist | White Privilege Blog
10 Ways To Be An Ally | White Privilege Blog
How White People Got Made | Medium
Institutional Racism - a definition | Huffington Post
Explaining White Privilege To a Broke White Person | Occupy Wall Street
Chronic Disparity: Strong and Pervasive Evidence of Racial Inequalities | Race and Public Policy Conference
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is | John Scalzi
29 Things White People Do - And What They Should Do Instead | Baltimore Racial Justice Action
For White Anti-Racists Holding Back From Stepping Up | TruthOut
FURTHER READING: ARTICLES
Our Biased Brains | New York Times
How To Be a White Ally | Black Millenials
I Am Racist, and So Are You | Being Shadoan
On Racism and White Privilege | Teaching Tolerance
What is Institutional Racism | Professor Vernillia Randal
Institutional Racism | Huffington Post
Why There Is No Such Thing As Reverse Racism | Daily Kos
What My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege | A Little More Sauce
10 Simple Ways White People Can Step Up to Fight Everyday Racism | Everyday Feminism
12 Ways To Be A White Ally To Black People | The Root
9 Clueless Things White People Say When Confronted With Racism | Daily Dot
5 Things White People Need To Learn About Cultural Appropriation | Daily Dot
FURTHER STUDY - VIDEO
The Whiteness Project | POV
FURTHER STUDY - DEEPER DIVES
The Trauma of Racism | The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research
Allen, Theodore, Invention of the White Race. Verso Books, Vol. I - 1994, Vol II - 1997.
Brodkin, Karen, How Jews Became White Folks & What That Says About Race in America. Rutgers University Press, 3rd ed. 2000.
Hitchcock, Jeff, Lifting the White Veil. Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, 2011.
Hughes, Langston, The Ways of White Folks. Vintage Books, 1990.
Ignatiev, Noel, How the Irish Became White. Routledge, 1995.
Kinchelow, Joe. L., White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America. St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Lipsitz, George, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Benefit from Identity Politics. Temple University Press, 1998.
Painter, Nell Irvin, The History of White People, New York, WW Norton, 2010.
Terry, Robert, For Whites Only. Wm. B. Eardmans Publishing Co, June 1975.
Aptheker, Herbert, Anti-Racism in U.S. History. Praeger, 1993.
Gossett, Thomas, Race: The History of an Idea in America. Pendulum Press, 1987.
Gross, Ariela J., What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America. Harvard Univ. Press, 2008
Hacker, A, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York: Ballantine, 1992.
Higgenbotham, Leon A. Jr., In the Matter of Color: Race and The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period. Oxford, 1980.
Jordan, Winthrop D, The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in America. Oxford, 1974.
Katznelson, Ira, When Affirmative Action Was White. WW Norton, 2005.
Lopez, Ian Haney, White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race. NYU Press, 1999.
Lui, Meizhu, et al., The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Wealth Divide. New York, New Press, 2006.
Montagu, Ashley, Man’s Most Dangerous Myth, The Fallacy of Race. Alta Mira Press, 1942; reissued, 1997.
PBS. “Race: The Power of an Illusion.” Los Angeles, California NewsReel. 2005. Episode One: “The Difference Between Us;” Episode Two: The Story We Tell;” Episode Three: The House We Live In.”
Roediger, David R., How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon. Verso Press, 2008.
Smedley, Audrey and Brian D., Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a World View. Westview Press, 2007.
Takaki, Ronald, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century America. Oxford Press, 1979.
Zinn, Howard, A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. Harper Perennial Library, 1995.