July: Systems and Internalizations
- July 8: Systems and Fragility
- July 15: Whiteness
- July 22: Internalizations and Bias
Pre-Class: Readings and Viewings
- Readings
- Peoples School of DC: Race Disparities
- Dismantling Racism: Racism Defined
- Josh Singer: The Difference Between White Supremacy and White Supremacists Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Video
- CNN: Cuomo on systemic racism in US economy: Here’s the proof (6:55 mins)
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo: Deconstructing White Privilege (20:01 mins)
- Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them (17:53)
Assignments
- Take Ally Henny: White Fragility Self-Test
- Try to identify at least 3 topics, conversations, etc. about racism that cause a reaction. Identify what that reaction is and some possible actions to do when you feel this reaction.
- Review People’s School of DC: Common Excuses to Deny Racism and White Privilege
- Pick five common excuses, from the People’s School page or from your own life, you hear in your own life used to deny, minimized, distort the reality of the racism and white privilege occurring today. Write out a rebuttal for each. Class participants will have the opportunity to share some of these rebuttals during the fourth Wednesday Schedule.
- Pick 5 activists and organizations to follow on social media
- Review their past posts and pick 1 lesson to present to class
Supplemental Readings and Viewings
- Podcast
- Scene on the Radio: Seeing White
- Readings
- Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ): White Supremacy (sic) Culture
- Natalie Morris: ‘Anti-blackness’ is a form of racism that is specifically damaging for black people
- Tracy Castro-Gill: Countering Whiteness
- Jacqui Germain, The Insidious Problem Of Racism ‘By Omission’
- Elizabeth Martinez: RACE: The U.S. Creation Myth and Its Premise Keepers
- Keith Boykin: Trading Hoods for Neckties
- Robin DiAngelo, No, I Won’t Stop Saying “White Supremacy”
- Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
- : White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, The First White President
- Sarah Watts: White fragility is real: 4 questions white people should ask themselves during discussions about race
- Resources websites
- Dismantling Racism: Works Web Workbook
- SURJ: Political education, TOOLKITS, and other resources
- Challenging White Supremacy: Resources
- Black Lives Matter: Resources
- Citizenship and Social Justice: 11-Step Guide to Understanding Race, Racism, and White Privilege
- Cultural Bridges to Justice: Resource
- Racial Equity Tools
- Rachael Ricketts: Anti-racism Resources
- White Alley Toolkit: Resoures
- White Accomplises: Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
- Justice in June
- Good Good Good Co: AntiRacism Resources
- People’s School of DC: Anti-Racism Resources
August: History of White Supremacy
- Aug 5: Colonialism and Capitalism
- Aug 12: US Foundations of White Supremacy
- Aug 19: Whitewashing US History
September: Solidifying Segregation
- Sept 9: Racial Segregation
- Sept 16: Housing Discrimination, Banking, and Black Capitalism
- Sept 23: Racial Histories Not Taught in School
October: Strategic Racism
- Oct 7: Patriarchy and White Supremacy
- Oct 14: Rightwing Politics
- Oct 21: Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism
November: Mass Incarceration
- Nov 4: Rise of Mass Incarceration
- Nov 11: Prison industrial complex
- Nov 18: Policing
December: Modern Spatial Racism
- Dec 2: Gentrification & Affordable Housing
- Dec 9: Environmental Racism
- Dec 16: Food Justice
January: Xenophobia
- Jan 6: Anti-immigrant
- Jan 13: Latinx and Asian American Discrimination
- Jan 20: Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Palestinian
February: Confronting Racism
- Feb 3: Understanding Effects of Racism and Learning to Decolonize
- Feb 10: Strategies to Effectively Challenge Racism: 101
- Feb 17: Strategies to Effectively Challenge Racism: 201
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