Description
Book SynopsisWitnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider their relationship to whiteness, the lingering shadows of racism, and the value of cultivating a self-reflective practice related to racial identity. The book includes personal testimony from well-respected cultural workers across race, such as Luis Rodriguez (author of Always Running), to offer dialogue not found anywhere else that illustrates how whiteness embeds itself in our psyche, lingers through continued social conditioning, and affects cross-race interactions as well as our ability to dismantle systems that uphold white dominance and oppression. In the midst of confusing and often contradictory messages, this new edition explains why developing an anti-racist white identity is an important part of cultivating an effective antiracist practice and is a necessary part of subverting the weaponizing of white identity cultivated by the far right.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Getting Started on the Journey
Chapter One: Naming and Defining the Problem
Chapter Two: A Hidden History
Chapter Three: Becoming Aware of Racism
Chapter Four: Recognizing Missteps and Cultural Loss
Part II: Guides on the Journey
Chapter Five: Revealing Racial Identity Journeys
Chapter Six: Meanings of Whiteness
Chapter Seven: Learning through Conflict
Chapter Eight: Lingering Racism
Part III: The Work of Witnessing Whiteness
Chapter Nine: Building Knowledge
Chapter Ten: Building Skills
Chapter Eleven: Building Capacity
Chapter Twelve: Building Community
Chapter Thirteen: Building a White Antiracist Culture
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
