BOOKS FOR TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND POLICYMAKERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Becoming a White Antiracist
A Practical Guide for Educators, Leaders, and Activists
- Publisher
Stylus Publishing - ISBN 9781620368596
- Language English
- Pages 276 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.25"
- Images 3 Illustrations
- Publisher
Stylus Publishing - ISBN 9781620368589
- Language English
- Pages 276 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.25"
- Images 3 Illustrations
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- Publisher
Stylus Publishing - ISBN 9781620368602
- Language English
- Pages 276 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.25"
- Images 3 Illustrations
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- Language English
- Pages 276 pp.
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As this book was being written, the United
States exploded in outrage against the murder by police of people of color
across the country. Corporations, branches of state and local government and educational institutions all pledged to work for racial justice and the Black Lives Matters movement moved into
the mainstream as people from multiple racial and class identities pledged
their support to its message. Diversity initiatives abounded, mission statements everywhere were changed to incorporate references to racial justice, and the rampant anti-blackness endemic to US culture was brought strikingly to the surface. Everywhere, it seemed, white people were looking to learn about
race. “What do we do?” “How can we help?” These were the cries the authors heard most frequently from those whites whose consciousness of racism was being
raised.
This book is their answer to those cries.
It’s grounded in the idea that white people need to start with themselves, with
understanding that they have a white racial identity. Once you’ve learned about
what it means to be white in a white supremacist world, the answer of "what can I do" becomes clear. Sometimes you work in multiracial alliances, but more
often you work with white colleagues and friends. In this book the authors explore what it means for whites to move from becoming aware of the extent of their unwitting collusion in racism, towards developing a committed antiracist
white identity. They create a road map, or series of paths, that people can consider traveling as they work to develop a positive white identity centered around enacting antiracism.
The book will be useful to anyone trying to
create conversations around race, teach about white supremacy, arrange staff
and development workshops on racism, and help colleagues explore how to create
an antiracist culture or environment. This work happens in schools, colleges and universities, and we suspect many readers will be located in K-12 and higher education. But helping people develop an antiracist identity is a project that occurs in corporations, congregations, community groups, health care, state and local government, arts organizations, and the military as well. Essentially, if you have an interest in helping the whites you interact with become antiracist, then this book is written very specifically for you.
Foreword
Preface
Intoduction:
Our Racial Stories
1) Why We Need White Antiracism
2) What is a White Antiracist Identity?
3) What it Means to be White
4) Helping People Become Aware of Their Whiteness
5) Using Stories to Uncover Racism
6) Embracing the Discomfort of Race Talk
7) Running ‘Real’ Discussions Around Race
8) Getting People to Think Structurally about Race
9) Using Your Power to Empower White Antiracism
10) Sharing
the Powerful History of Antiracist Work
11) Responding
to Resistance Against Antiracist Efforts
12) Being
an Antiracist White Ally
References
About the Authors
Index
Stephen D. Brookfield
Stephen D. Brookfield is Distinguished Scholar at Antioch University, Adjunct Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota). He has written, co-written or edited nineteen books on adult learning, teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods, critical theory, leadership, and teaching race, six of which have won the Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education. His academic appointments have included positions at the University of British Columbia, Teachers College Columbia University (New York), Harvard University and the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Mary E. Hess
Mary E. Hess is Professor of Educational Leadership at Luther Seminary, where she has taught since 2000. During the 2016-2017 year she held the Patrick and Barbara Keenan Visiting Chair in Religious Education at the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. She is affiliated faculty at the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University, as well as at the San Francisco Theological Seminary/Graduate School of Theology in the University of Redlands. Hess has degrees from Yale, Harvard and Boston College, and is a past president of the Religious Education Association. She is a consultant with the Wabash Center on Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religious Studies, is a member of the Faculty Development Committee of the Association of Theological Schools, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals.