LibGuides: Building Inclusion Collaborative Resource Guide: Personal Awareness Resources

Assessment

Take one of Harvard's Implicit Association Tests (IAT) by clicking here. You can learn more about Project Implicit by clicking here.

Websites

The Feminist Collective The Fitzroy High School Feminist Collective began its life in 2013. It started with a ‘Book Club’ elective class, where a student discussion about the violence visited upon a nameless female character in the text ‘Of Mice and Men’ revealed a sense of anger and frustration about gender inequality more broadly. This led to much discussion about the ‘Everyday Sexism’ the young women in the class endured, and that the young men in the class witnessed, and gave way to the realisation that young people needed to take action to address these issues in a secondary school context. A lunchtime Feminist Collective quickly developed into a timetabled elective class, and the idea for the #FHSFightback poster campaign and teaching resource was born.
21-Day Racial Equity Learning Challenge A website offering 21 days of manageable content to help you learn and reflect on racial equity. You can use their chart to keep track of your learning, questions, thoughts, ideas, experiences, or any other form of reflection. The challenge consists of 5 major parts and a reflection on each: read, watch, listen, notice, act.

Infographic

Click the image to enlarge. Image: © NMAAHC, All Rights Reserved. Download PDF(link is external). Data Source: “Some Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture in the United States(link is external),” by Judith H. Katz, ©1990. The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Follow this link to view the infographic and more information on the National Museum of African American History & Culture's 'whiteness' webpage.

Films on Kanopy

How Racism Harms White Americans
Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his focus on the high price that white people, especially working class whites, have paid for more than two centuries of divisive race-based policies and attitudes.
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I Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and flood of rich archival material. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
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Man On Fire
Grand Saline, Texas has a history of racism - a history the community doesn't talk about. This shroud of secrecy ended when Charles Moore, an elderly white preacher, self-immolated to protest the town's racism in 2014, shining a spotlight on the town's dark past. MAN ON FIRE untangles the pieces of this protest and questions racism in Grand Saline today.
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White Like Me
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the U.S. through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today.
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Film not on Kanopy

Esberg, S. (Producer) & Jenkins, B. (Director). (2016). Moonlight [motion picture]. United State: A24. Read more about this film by visiting its page in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

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The resources on this page are meant to assist with increasing awareness of my own and sensitivity to others’ cultural identities. Scroll down to view the resources organized by content type.

Articles

Hutcherson, L. L. (2016, July 17). What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege. The Huffington Post. Retrieved from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-i-said-when-my-white-friend-asked-for-my-black_b_578c0770e4b0b107a2415b89

Masters, R. (n. d.) Spiritual bypassing [webpage]. Retrieved from https://robertmasters.com/2013/04/29/spiritual-bypassing/

McIntosh, P. (1988). White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack. Available online here.

Book Chapters

Fine, M. (2004). Witnessing whiteness/gathering intelligence. In Off white: Readings on power, privilege, and resistance (2nd Ed., pp. 245-256.) New York, NY: Routledge. Find it in a local library.

Gallagher, C. A. (2013). Playing the white ethnic card: Using ethnic identity to deny contemporary racism. In A. W. Doane & E. Bonilla-Silva (Eds.) White out (pp. 147-160). New York, NY: Routledge. Find it in a local library.

McIntosh, P. (2001). White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in Women's studies (1988). In. M. L. Anderson & P. Hill-Collins (Eds.) Race, class, and gender: An anthology (4th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Find it in a local library.

Books

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780307455925
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.
Being White by Karyn D. McKinney; Joe R. Feagin (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780415935739
Publication Date: 2004-12-26
Karyn McKinney uses written autobiographies solicited from young white people to empirically analyze the contours of the white experience in U.S. society. This text offers a unique view of whiteness based on the rich data provided by whites themselves, writing about what it means to be white.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji; Anthony G. Greenwald
ISBN: 9780345528438
Publication Date: 2016-08-16
"I know my own mind."
"I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way."
These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality.
Men Talk by Jennifer Coates
ISBN: 9780631220459
Publication Date: 2003-02-10
Men Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium.
No One Will See Me Cry by Cristina Rivera Garza; Andrew Hurley (Translator)
ISBN: 9781880684917
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Joaquin Buitrago, a photographer in the Castaneda Insane Asylum, believes a patient is a prostitute he knew years earlier. His obsession in confirming Matilde's identity leads him to explore the clinics records, and her tragic history. He discovers that she was a peasant adopted by a doctor uncle. She led a calm life until Cástulo, a young revolutionary chased by the authorities, finds shelter in her home. Matilde's eyes are opened to the social upheaval will lead her to break with her uncle and hide out with Diamantina Vicari. Diamantina's death devastates Matilde so much that she wanders about, completely lost, doing all kinds of jobs, including prostitution. As the photographer discovers more details, he becomes convinced that he and Matilde should live together. Ultimately, as they face defeat in a repressive society, they search to establish in the rubble an uncertain future that will somehow restore their freedom.