Encountering Whiteness
Pre-Work
Please write your racial biography, reflecting on how you came to understand yourself as having or being a race.
Read, “Representing whiteness in the black imagination,” by bell hooks.
Additional Resources
Books
Carol Anderson, White Rage, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility, Beacon Press, 2018
Ruth Frankenberg, editor, Displacing Whiteness, Duke University Press, 1997
George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, Temple University Press, 2006
Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness in America, Basic Books, 2019
“Whiteness becomes a social inheritance; in receiving whiteness as a gift, white bodies—or those bodies that can be recognized as white—come to “posess” whiteness as if it were a shared attribute.”
Videos
Jordan Peele, Get Out
The Whiteness Project [interactive PBS feature]
Essays and workbooks
White Supremacy Culture (From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001)
Christina Sharpe, “Lose your kin,” The New Inquiry, November 16, 2016