ANTI-RACIST TEACHING COLLECTIVE
  • ABOUT
    • Our Collective
  • Key Concepts
    • Abolition
    • Acculturation
    • Authenticity
    • Code Switching
    • Colonization
    • Color Blindness
    • Colorism
    • Cultural Appropriation
    • Intersectionality
    • Internalized Racism
    • Person Centered Language
    • Positionality
    • Racial Bribe
    • Racism
    • Respectability Politics
    • Whiteness
    • White Supremacy
  • PEDAGOGY
  • Student Voices
  • In Conversation

Whiteness

A Set of systems held together by certain beliefs which gives benefits to those people who may be considered white.
A definition that 
changes overtime in order to facilitate the maintenance of the system - systems which were born from, and continue to rely on, White Supremacy.
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The Rich Soil Down There, Kara Walker

“You don’t get whiteness from your genes. It is social inheritance that is passed on to you as a member of a particular group” 
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“Whiteness is slick and endlessly inventive. It is most effective when it makes itself invisible, when it appears neutral, human, American.”                                                                         
 - Michael Eric Dyson on Inventing Whiteness, 
​Tears We Cannot Stop
“It was this Africanism, deployed as rawness and savagery, that provided the staging ground and arena for the elaboration of the quintessential American identity” 
- Toni Morrison,
​Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"America became white-the people who, as they claim, "settled" the country became white-because of the necessity of denying the black presence, and justifying the black subjugation."
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"And in this debasement and definition of black people, debased and defined themselves. And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. Because they think they are white, they do not dare con­front the ravage and the lie of their history."

"It is a terrible paradox, but those who believed that they could control and define black people divested them selves of 
the power to control and define themselves."
 - James Baldwin,
​"On Being White... and Other Lies"
“Whiteness, I will argue in the pages that follow, has a set of linked dimensions. First, whiteness is a location of structural advantage, of race privilege. Second, it is a 'standpoint,' a place from which white people look at ourselves, at others, and at society. Third, 'whiteness' refers to a set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and un- named.”
- Ruth Frankenberg,
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness 


In Conversation

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The Limits of Whiteness
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2017
Neda Maghbouleh
Watch the Author Speak Here
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Whiteness Project

Intersection of I : Millenials in Dallas, Texas
View Video Collection Here
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"The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black"

2017
Ijeoma Oluo
Read Here
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"Donald Trump is the First White President"

2017
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Read Here
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White Lies - Podcast

2019

by NPR
Listen Here
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  • ABOUT
    • Our Collective
  • Key Concepts
    • Abolition
    • Acculturation
    • Authenticity
    • Code Switching
    • Colonization
    • Color Blindness
    • Colorism
    • Cultural Appropriation
    • Intersectionality
    • Internalized Racism
    • Person Centered Language
    • Positionality
    • Racial Bribe
    • Racism
    • Respectability Politics
    • Whiteness
    • White Supremacy
  • PEDAGOGY
  • Student Voices
  • In Conversation