Racism & White Privilege Bibliography
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Suggested Titles Available Through Interlibrary Loan

• Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White / Tim Wise. Routledge.
• Becoming and Unbecoming White:  Owning and Disowning a Racial Identity / Christine Clark and James O'Donnell (eds).  Westport , Conn :  Bergin & Garvey, 1999.
• Bridge Over the Racial Divide:  Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics / William Julius Wilson.  Berkeley :  University of California Press , c1999.
• The Color of Welfare:  How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty / Jill Quadrango.  NY:  Oxford University Press. 1994.
• The Color of Words:  An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United States / Philip H. Herbst. Yarmouth , Me. , USA :  Intercultural Press, [1997].
• Critical White Studies:  Looking Behind the Mirror / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, (eds.). Philadelphia :  Temple University Press, 1997.
• Disasters, Natural and Otherwise: Race, Class and the Destruction of New Orleans (forthcoming in 2006)/ Tim Wise. City Lights Books.
• Dismantling White Privilege:   Pedagogy, Politics, and Whiteness / Nelson M. Rodriguez and Leila E. Villaverde (eds.).   New York :  P. Lang, 2000.
• Everyday Acts Against Racism:  Raising Children in a Multiracial World / Maureen Reddy, (ed).  WA:  Seal Press, 1996.
• Faces of Environmental Racism:  Confronting Issues of Global Justice / Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz (eds).  Lanham , Md. :  Rowman & Littlefield, c1995.
• The First R:  How Children Learn Race and Racism / Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin.    Lanham , Md :  Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
• The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, V. 1. / Theodore Allen.  London :  Verso, 1994.
• Invisible Privilege:  a Memoir About Race, Class, and Gender / Paula Rothenberg. Lawrence :  University Press of Kansas , 2000.
• Little White Lies: The Truth about Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination / Tim Wise.  New Orleans :  Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice, Loyola University , 1995.
• Off White:  Readings on Race, Power and Society / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell and L. Mun Wong.  NY:  Routledge, 1997.
• Privilege, Power and Difference / Allan G. Johnson.  NY:  McGraw-Hill, 2001.
• A Promise and a Way of Life:  White Antiracist Activism / Becky Thompson.   Minneapolis :  University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
• A Race is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life / Janet E. Helms.  Topeka , KS :  Content Communications, 1994.
• Racism:  Essential Readings / Ellis Cashmore and James Jennings (eds).  London :  SAGE, 2001. 
• Salvation:  Black People and Love / Bell Hooks.  New York :  William Morrow, 2001.
• Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male (forthcoming in 2006) / Tim Wise. 
• Towards the Abolition of Whiteness:  Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History / David Roediger . Verso, 1994
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work For Racial Justice / Paul Kivel. British Colombia , Canada :  New Society Publishers, 1996.
• White / Richard Dyer. New York :  Routledge, 1997.
• White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training / Judy H. Katz. Norman :  University of Oklahoma Press , c1978.
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son / Tim Wise. Soft Skull Press.
• White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty-Five Personal Stories (Tim Wise, contributor). Duke University Press.
• White Privilege:  Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism / Paula S. Rothenberg.  NY:  Worth. 2002.
• White Women, Race Matters:  The Social Construction of Whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg. Minneapolis :  University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
• Writing Dissent:  Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream / Robert Jensen. NY:  P. Lang , 2001.
• Yearning:  Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics / Bell Hooks.  Boston , MA :  South End Press, 1990.

Suggested Videos

• The essential blue eyed : 50 minute trainer's edition and 36 minute debriefing / Denkmal Filmproduction ; produced by Claus Strigel and Bertram Verhaag ; written and directed by Bertram Verhaag.
  Jane Elliott conducts a diversity training workshop where an arbitrarily selected group of individuals is targeted to experience prejudice and bigotry. The workshop is based on the blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise.
• Examining White Privilege / a presentation by Tim Wise at Greenfield Community College , May 6, 2003.  Available on reserve at the Circulation Desk at the GCC Library.
• Ethnic notions / producer, director, writer, Marlon T. Riggs
  Covering more than one hundred years of United States history, traces the evolution of Black American caricatures and their role in political and social conflicts concerning race.
• The Eye of the storm / ABC News, ABC Media Concepts ; produced & written by William Peters ; director, William Peters.
  Award winning documentary records an innovative experiment in which a third-grade teacher divides her all-white class into "blue-eyes" and "brown-eyes," making each group superior or inferior on successive days. Demonstrates the nature and effects of bigotry by showing changes brought about in their behavior and learning patterns.
• Racism 101 / written and produced by Thomas Lennon.
  Frontline focuses on the racism problems at the University of Michigan campus. 
• The Shadow of hate : a history of intolerance / a film by Charles Guggenheim and Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
  A documentary that examines 3 centuries of American history to understand America 's history of intolerance.
• Skin deep / Iris Films.  
  A diverse group of college students reveal their honest fellings and attitudes about race and racism. Students are interviewed alone, and then discuss the issues in a group setting.