Via What’s UP?! Talking points – Effective Strategies for Confronting Racism in Conversation These strategies were generated from What’s UP?! Pgh Conversation Salons over the years. Thank you to all the participants, planners, facilitators and space providers! Keep in mind the elements of the situation: Timing – now or later? Can you come back … Read More
Via Cultural Bridges to Justice. Detour-Spotting for White Anti-Racists jona olsson For white people living in North America learning to be anti-racist is a re-education process. I must unlearn the thorough racist conditioning to re-educate and re-condition myself as an anti-racist. I need knowledge, guidance and experience to avoid the detours and traps waiting for … Read More
Via Stanford Social Innovation Review. The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards By Aysa Gray Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not privilege the values of white and Western employees and leave behind people of color. The standards of professionalism, according to American grassroots organizer-scholars Tema Okun and Keith Jones, are … Read More
Via Colours of Resistance Archive. The Work Is Not The Workshop: Talking and Doing, Visibility and Accountability in the White Anti-Racist Community White folks, have not only the obligation but the potential–we really do–to make a real-live, genuine, accountable contribution to the struggle for racial justice that is happening in our world, right now. But … Read More
Via WhiteAccomplices.org. Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice The ideas captured on this website, very much a work in progress, have been developed to support White people to act for racial justice. It draws from ideas and resources developed mostly by Black, Brown and People of Color, and has been edited by … Read More
Via Peggy McIntosh. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group” Through work to bring materials from women’s studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant that … Read More
