Whites Challenging Racism
Syllabus
Spring 2008 (subject to
revision):
Week 1 (Feb 21): Making Whiteness
Visible
Week 2 (Feb 28): White
Privilege | Experiencing & Responding to Racism
Week 3 (Mar
6): Intersectionality | The Racial Wealth Divide
- "Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide," Conquest: Sexual Violence and
American
Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith (2005).
- Selections from The
Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial
Wealth Divide by Meizhu Lui, et al. (2006).
- The
Meritocracy Myth: A Dollars & Sense interview with
Lani Guinier
- Begin to prepare your family story: Tips on
preparing your family story
Week 4 (Mar 13): White
Identity Development
Week 5 (March
20): White
Identity Development Continued
Week 6 (Mar 27): The
System of White Supremacy
Week 7 (Apr 3):
Case
Study: Anti-Arab Racism
- "Introduction: The Evolution of White
Supremacy," Steven Salaita, Anti-Arab Racism in the USA:
Where It Comes from and What It Means for Politics Today (2006).
- "Heteropatriarchy
and the Three Pillars of White
Supremacy"
Andrea Smith in Color
of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology edited by Incite! Women
of Color Against Violence (2006).
- "Moving from Cultural Appropriation Toward Ethical
Cultural
Connections," Joanna Kadi Thinking
Class:
Sketches from a Cultural Worker (1996).
- Supplemental:
"Shouting
Across the Divide," This American Life (if pressed for time,
Act One: Which One of These Is Not Like the Others? is the main thing
to listen to)
- Supplemental:
The
Splended Table May 19. Start listening at 34:20
- Supplemental
cultural appropriation resources:
Week 8 (April 10): Racism in
Social Justice Movements
Week 9 (April
17): Prison
Industrial
Complex | Public Transportation Inequity
Week 10 (April 24):
Gentrification
| Engaging
in anti-racist work