These articles informed a recent talk on the topic of whiteness for sign language interpreters.
“White people [must move] from an individual understanding of racism—i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad—to a structural understanding [of white privilege].”
~ Dr Robin DiAngelo ~
White People: Stop Microvalidating Each Other, Stephanie Jo Kent
White Fragility: Why it’s so hard to talk to White people about racism, Robin DiAngelo
Fighting White Supremacy and White Privilege to Build a Human Rights Movement, Loretta Ross
Calling In: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable, Ngoc Loan Tran
It’s time for white people to reckon with racism, Eve Ensler
28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors, Jona Olsson
The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence, Ta-Nahisi Coates
Dear White Parents of my Black Child’s Friends: I Need Your Help, Maralee Bradley
White America Couldn’t Handle What Black America Deals with Every Day, Henry Rollins
This is what white people can do to support #BlackLivesMatter, Sally Kohn
Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda on Finding Originality, Racial Politics (and Why Trump Should See His Show), Lin-Maneul Miranda & Frank DiGiacomo
10 Books I Wish My White Teachers Had Read, Crystal Paul
What it’s like to be Black in Napierville, America, Brian Crooks
Police shootings won’t stop unless we address this problem no one is talking about, Jack Hitt
Aren’t more white people than black people killed by police? Yes, but no. Wesley Lowery
Could all this racial violence bring two sides together? Faye Higbee
Branches of Mentoring, Michael Meade
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