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What Does it Mean to be White? How Can I Be an Ally?

This list is of mixed media to help people take one of the first steps to being an ally by centering whiteness, and the responsibility of White people in systemic racism.

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42 items

  • Me and White Supremacy

    Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    Saad, Layla F.
    "Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor leads readers through a journey of understanding their white privilege and participation in white supremacy, so that they can stop (often…
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  • Me and White Supremacy

    Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    Saad, Layla F.,
    Book, 2020Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2020] — 305.809 S1117m 2020
  • Me and White Supremacy

    Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    Saad, Layla F.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2020Ashland : Blackstone Publishing, 2020. — Libby Audiobook
  • White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    DiAngelo, Robin
    "In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia…
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  • White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    DiAngelo, Robin
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2018New York : Beacon Press, 2018. — Libby Audiobook
  • "Written as an accessible introduction to white identity from an anti-racist framework, What Does It Mean To Be White? is an invaluable resource for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups and students of sociology,…
    Book, 2012New York : Peter Lang, ©2012. — 305.809 D538w 2012
  • What Does It Mean to Be White in America?

    Breaking the White Code of Silence : a Collection of Personal Narratives

    "An invaluable starting point that includes a glossary and a bibliography of suggested reading, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? is highly recommended for students, teachers and anyone else interested in seeking a deeper and richer…
    Book, 2016New York : 2Leaf Press, [2016] — 305.80097 W5552 2016
  • Waking Up White

    and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

    Irving, Debby,
    "For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she…
    Book, 2014Cambridge, MA : Elephant Room Press, [2014] — 305.800973 I723w 2014
  • Waking Up White

    And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

    Irving, Debby
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2016Buffalo : Audiobooks.com Publishing, 2016. — Libby Audiobook
  • "As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man's voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," Michael Eric Dyson moved a…
    Book, 2017New York : St. Martin's Press, [2017] — 305.8 D998t 2017
  • Audiobook CD, 2017New York : Macmillan Audio, [2017] — CD 305.8 D998t
  • The Heart of Whiteness

    Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege

    Jensen, Robert, 1958-
    "This book is both a cautionary tale for those who believe that they have transcended racism, and also an expression of the hope for genuine transcendence. When white people fully understand and accept the painful reality that they are indeed “the…
    Book, 2005San Francisco, CA : City Lights, ©2005. — 305.80097 J54h 2005
  • Black for a Day

    White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

    Gaines, Alisha,
    "Complicating the histories of black-to-white passing and blackface minstrelsy, Gaines uses an interdisciplinary approach rooted in literary studies, race theory, and cultural studies to reveal these sometimes maddening, and often absurd,…
    Book, 2017Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] — 305.800973 G142b 2017
  • Practice Showing Up

    a Guidebook for White People Working for Racial Justice

    Peacock, Jardana,
    "Practice Showing Up is a reckoning with white supremacy, a balm for the tensions of racial justice work, and a manual for white people to practice collective liberation. First conceived by author, healer and spiritual teacher Jardana Peacock in…
    Book, 2018[Louisville, Kentucky?] : [Jardana Peacock?], [2018] — 305.809 P356p 2018
  • The Price of Whiteness

    Jews, Race, and American Identity

    Goldstein, Eric L.
    "American Jewish history is often told as a story of quick and successful adaptation, but Goldstein demonstrates how the process of identifying as white Americans was an ambivalent one, filled with hard choices and conflicting emotions for Jewish…
    Book, 2006Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006. — 305.8924 G624p 2006
  • "When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen…
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  • The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2

    The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America

    Allen, Theodore W.
    "In Volume II of The Invention of the White Race, Theodore Allen explores the transformation that turned African bond-laborers into slaves and segregated them from their fellow proletarians of European origin. In response to labor unrest, where…
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  • Everyday Forms of Whiteness

    Understanding Race in a "post-racial" World

    Bush, Melanie E. L., 1955-
    "The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though…
    Book, 2011Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011. — 305.800973 B9785e 2011