* Resources for Analysis, Action, Reflection, Alliance*

White Noise Definitions

Understanding Privilege Systems

• White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women’s studies, (an essay frequently referred to as “The Invisible Knapsack”) by Peggy McIntosh.
• The Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial and the Costs of Inequality by Tim Wise
• The Ruling Class and The Buffer Zone by Paul Kivel
• Lived Examples of Privilege: helpful lists
  • Heterosexual Privilege in the US
  • Cisgender Privilege
  • Male Privilege
  • Christian Privilege
  • Middle to Upper Class Privilege
• White Supremacy (Lexicon Series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies)
• White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun
• Colonialism (Lexicon Series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies)
• Power (Lexicon Series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies)
• Unraveling the Armor of Privilege by Vanissar Tarakali
• Whites Educating Whites
• The Distress of the Privileged
• White Female Privilege – and how to not use sexism to fight racism
  • asians in the library of the world: a persona poem in the voice of alexandra wallace by Beau Sia

Gender Identity

• Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries - “Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)constructing Intersex, Transgender and Bisexuality” by Betsy Lucal, Indiana University South Bend.
• The Genderbread Person
• Gender (Lexicon Series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies)
• The Age of Hipster Sexism
• Transgender Basics: Gender Identity Project
• The GENDER book is a fun, colorful, community-based resource, which illustrates the beautiful diversity of gender – a sort of gender 101 for anyone and everyone.
• Evolutionary Psychology BINGO
• Katie Makkai, “Pretty”
• FemPop: An initiative of the Society for the Psychology of Women – feminist frameworks on popular culture that affect psychological development of girls and women
• We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists edited by Melody Berger.

Body as Battleground

• ‘Gendercide’ and Witch hunts
• Witch hunts and the War on Terror
• Women’s bodies and the Civil Rights Movement
• Laws Targeting Women’s Reproductive Rights
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano.

Tools for Challenging Racism

• A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
• The Unequal Opportunity Race
• Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit: Anti-Racist Organizing to Build the 99% Movement
• Pedagogies of strategic empathy: navigating through the emotional complexities of anti-racism in higher education by Michalinos Zemblyas in Teaching in Higher Education. Routledge.
• Racism and Anti-Racism: Why They Matter To SlutWalks
• 5 Tips For White Allies in the Occupy Movement
• How To Tell People They Sound Racist - illdoctrine/Jay Smooth

• TEDx Hampshire College: Jay Smooth – “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race”
• Yo, Is This Racist?
• Colorlines: “5 Ways To Face Race at the Thanksgiving Table – and Not Choke On It”
• “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume”: recent poster campaign by Ohio University student group STARS (Students Teaching About Racism in Society)
• 10 Conversations I’m Sick Of Having With White People
• Barriers to working with other anti-racist white people, by Joanie Mayer.
• Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism by Sara Ahmed, University of Lancaster. Borderlands.
• Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice
• Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk.
• 28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors by Debra Leigh

Microaggressions

• Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice - by Derald Wing Sue, Christina Capodilupo, Gina Torino, Jennifer Bucceri, Aisha Holder, Kevin Nadal and Marta Esquilin. Teachers College, Columbia University. American Psychologist.
• The Microaggressions Project
• On “Sh*t White Girls Say…”: Making Microaggressions Conscious
• Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls
• Sh*t White Girls Say…to Arab Girls
• Sh*t White Girls Say…to Brown (Desi/Indian) Girls
• Stuff Cis People Say To Trans People
• Sh*t Straight Girls Say…to Lesbians
• Things White Activists Say to Activists of Color

Cultural Appropriation

• NANAs - On Medicine Women and White Shame-ans: New Age Native Americanism and Commodity Fetishism as Pop Culture Feminism by Laura E. Donaldson.
• Reflections on Whiteness and the Ecospiritual Movment
• “Appreciation or Appropriation?” printable pamphlet by Dixie Pauline and Hillary Lehr
• Native Appropriations
• “my culture is not a trend.”
• Cultural Appropriation flowchart
• Cultural Appropriation BINGO
• Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality
• “White Like Me: 10 Codes of Ethics for White People in Hip-Hop” by J-Love
• “An Open Letter to My Local Hipsters”
• “Culture! 99 Cents per Pound!”
• When (Everybody Wants To Be An Indian) poem about Native American identity and stereotypes

Media Literacy and Parody

• Feminist Frequency: Conversations with Pop Culture
  • The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies
  • The Smurfette Principle
  • The Straw Feminist

• About-face: Don’t fall for the media circus!
• How To Debunk Pseudo-Science Articles About Race In 5 Easy Steps
• Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing
• Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women by Jean Kilbourne

http://vimeo.com/48800829

• Fotoshop by Adobé

• Riley on Marketing

• Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister by bell hooks, from “Black Looks: Race and Representation”
• White Women’s Workout

• Onion Video: White Girl Tried As Black Adult

Helping/Saving (Industrial and Psychological) Complexes

• The White Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole, The Atlantic March 2012
• Nice White Lady: Mad TV parody of white savior teacher trope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s

• International Aid Worker Meets African Villager
• Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, by Lila Abu-Lughod. American Anthropologist.
• Radi-Aid: Africa for Norway Charity Single
• Wealth, Power and Class – Part 5: “The Buffer Zone” by Paul Kivel

Current Events Analysis

• The Feminist Wire: Fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives
• Colorlines: News for Action
• Racialicious: Intersection of race and pop culture
• Feministing: Young Feminists Blogging, Organizing, Kicking Ass
• POPSspot: Power, Oppression, & Privilege in Sport

Resource Collections

• Colours of Resistance Archive
• Applied Research Center: Racial Justice Through Media, Research and Activism
• Beyond Whiteness
• TransAwakening: News & Videos about Being Transgender
• Decolonizing Yoga: Where Spirituality Meets Social Justice
• Resource links for “Good White People (TM)” CIIS (California Institute of Integral Studies) A.W.A.R.E. (Awaken to Whiteness and Racism Everywhere) chapter

Anti-Oppression Training, Organizing, and Movement Building

• Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy To Liberate Everyone by Leticia Nieto and Margot F. Boyer.
• Transformative Alliances LLC: Anti-Oppression & Inclusiveness Consulting
• Thrive Social Justice Consulting: Cultivating Abundance, Creating Change!
• Fierce Allies: Fostering deep partnerships across divides of power and privilege
• The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond: Undoing Racism
• Start Dialog: Courses in Cultural Competency
• Paul Kivel: Educator, Activist, Writer
• S.O.N.G. (Southerners on New Ground): Building a political home across race, class, culture, gender & sexuality
• JLove Calderon: Educator, Producer, and Author of “That White Girl”, “Occupying Privilege” and more.
• Groundwork Madison
• AORTA Collective: Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance
• White Privilege Conference
• World Trust: Social Impact through Film and Dialogue

White Anti-Racist Organizations

• Anne Braden Program, Catalyst Project
• WWHAT’S UP: Whites Working and Hoping to Abolish Total Supremacy, Undermining Privilege
• East Bay Saturday Dialogues: Building white anti-racist community
• AWARE-LA: Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere – Los Angeles
• SURJ: Showing Up for Racial Justice (formerly US for All Of Us)

White Female Histories

A Letter to White Southern Women from Anne Braden

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici.

The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race & the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence by Susan M. Ryan.

Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 by Peggy Pascoe.

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History by Vron Ware.

Killers of the Dream and Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith.

The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy In Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi.

Sex, Race and Class–The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 by Selma James.

The Social Construction of Whiteness: White Women, Race Matters by Ruth Frankenburg.

Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest.

Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre.

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