White Privilege
White Privilege
This is a set of links I’ve put together for following up workshops where we’re engaging white privilege, and learning how to dismantle racism.
WEBSITES
Defining white privilege . “Your nation on white privilege” (Tim Wise). “Explaining white privilege” (Tim Wise). MCARI . ELCA anti-racism resources . “In God’s Image” (Bishop Flynn’s letter on racism) . Understanding Race (AAA project) . YWCA racial justice project . Minnesota Report Card .
BLOGS
Rachel’sTavern . Harlow’sMonkey . TheKitchenTable . RaceWire . AntiRacistParent . Racialicious .
BOOKS
A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation by E. Conde-Frazier, S. Kang, and G. Parrett (Brazos, 2004) . Race Matters by Cornel West (Vintage, 1994) . Difficult Conversations by Stone, Patton, Heen and Fisher (Penguin, 2000) . Ending Racism in the Church, edited by S. Davies and Sr. Paul Teresa Hennessee (United Church Press, 1998) . The Church Enslaved, by Tony Campolo and Michael Battle (Fortress, 2005) . White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity, by James. Perkinson (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004)
ARTICLES
“Embodied pedagogies: Engaging racism in theological education and digital cultures” (Mary Hess, from Engaging Technology in Theological Education) . “How can white teachers recognize and challenge racism? Acknowledging collusion and learning an aggressive humility” (Hess and Brookfield, in Teaching Reflectively in Theological Education) .
White privilege
A form of privilege attaching to those people who have light colored skin in the United States. It is part of a system of privileges and disadvantages that are constructed through the category of race, and has more to do with conferred dominance than anything else.
Mary Hess / Associate Professor of Educational Leadership / Luther Seminary / 651.641.3232 / mhess@luthersem.edu