Racism & White Privilege Research Guide
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Tim Wise, one of the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the United States, was the Martin Luther King Day keynote speaker at Deerfield Academy on January 16, 2006. Mr. Wise has spoken at numerous college campuses around the country and provided anti-racism training to teachers, medical personnel, journalists, and corporate, government, military and law enforcement officials. For more information on Tim Wise and his contributions toward the elimination of racism, visit his website at http://www.timwise.org.

This research guide has been created in support of the presentation by Mr. Wise and of all the Martin Luther King Day 2006 activities at Deerfield Academy to assist Deerfield students, faculty, staff and others in identifying current literature on racism and white privilege.

Books in the Boyden Library

• Everyday Racism:  a Book for All Americans / Annie S. Barnes.  Naperville , Ill. :  Sourcebooks, 2000.
• Everyday Racism:  Reports from Women of two Cultures / Philomena Essed; trans. from the Dutch by Cynthia Jaffe.  Claremont , CA :  Hunter House, c1990.
• How the Irish Became White / Noel Ignatiev.  NY:  Routledge 1995.
• Killing Rage:  Ending Racism / Bell Hooks.   New York :  H. Holt and Co., 1995.
• My First White Friend:  Confessions on Race, Love, and Forgiveness / Patricia Raybon. New York :  Viking, 1996.
• Race Matters / Cornell West.  Boston :  Beacon Press, 1993.
• Skin Deep:  Black Women and White Women Write About Race / Marita Golden and Susan Richards Shreve (eds).  New York :  Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1995.
• White Trash:  Race and Class in America / Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz (eds).  New York :  Routledge, 1997.
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race / Beverly Daniel Tatum.  New York :  BasicBooks, c1999.

Consult the Racism & White Privilege Bibliography for titles to request through Interlibrary Loan.

Videos in the Boyden Library

• Blue eyed / Denkmal Filmproductions ; produced by Claus Strigel and Bertram Verhaag ; written and directed by Bertram Verhaag ; in cooperation with Jane Elliott. 
  Jane Elliott conducts a workshop where an arbitrarily selected group of individuals is targeted to experience prejudice and bigotry. Based on the blue eyed-brown eyed exercise.
• A Class divided / Consortium of Public Television Stations ; [produced by] Yale University Films ; producer and director, William Peters. 
  Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled the Eye of the storm. Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students.

Consult the Racism & White Privilege Bibliography for videos available through Interlibrary Loan.

Finding Articles in Research Databases

Racism is a useful subject heading, but the term "white privilege" is not yet being used as a subject heading. The phrase is commonly used in language.

• Search white privilege as a keyword phrase in an appropriate research database to find articles
• Other suggested keyword terms and phrases are:  whiteness, whites, black disadvantage
• Try the keyword search <white* and privilege*>, truncating the words to include all endings of those words
• Additional useful subject headings for this information are: white women (or men), race relations, race discrimination, whites in popular culture, affirmative action, discrimination in education.

The following DA databases would be appropriate for locating literature on this topic.  Try searching by author for writers on this topic such as Peggy McIntosh, Robert Jensen, Paula Rothenberg, Tim Wise, and others mentioned in the book lists provided:

• EBSCOhost Databases:
  Academic Search Premier, MAS Ultra, Newspaper Source
• InfoTrac Databases:
  General OneFile, Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic, General Reference Center, Educator's Reference Complete, General BusinessFile
• Lexis-Nexis (try the News and Business sections)

Internet Sites
(all websites should be evaluated for authorship, accuracy, and currency)  

Whiteness and/or White Privilege

• Color Blinded by Whiteness:  http://academic.udayton.edu/race/04needs/colorbli.htm
• SCRAP (Students Challenging Racism and White Privilege):  http://canopyweb.com/racism/
• Whiteness Studies:  Deconstructing (the) Race:  http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/index.html
• Center for the Study of White American Culture:  a Multiracial Organization (see their White Studies Library and Links):  http://euroamerican.org/library.asp
• White Privilege:  an Anti-racist Resource:  http://www.whiteprivilege.com/
• Anti-Racist Alliance:  http://www.antiracistalliance.com/
• Deconstructing Whiteness:  A Select Bibliography:  http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/Whitenessbib.html
• ZNet Search (try searching the phrase "white privilege" or "racism"--try the author search for Tim Wise, Robert Jensen, etc):  http://www.zmag.org/search/

Selected Essays & Articles

• Who Invented White People (by Gregory Jay)?:  http://www.uwm.edu/%7Egjay/Whiteness/Whitenesstalk.html

• Whites swim in racial preference (by Tim Wise):  http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15209
• Other articles by Tim Wise:  http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=96
• Articles and essays on race, racism, and white privilege (by Robert Jensen):  http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/racearticles.htm
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (by Peggy McIntosh): http://www.cwru.edu/president/aaction/UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf
• Diversity vs. White Privilege (by Christine Sleeter): http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/15_02/Int152.shtml
• The Preference of White Privilege (by Kimberle W. Crenshaw): http://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/whiteness06.htm
• What Should White People Do? (by Linda Martin Alcoff):  http://iupjournals.org/hypatia/hyp13-3.html
• A Long History of Affirmative Action--for Whites:  http://www.newsreel.org/guides/race/whiteadv.htm
• White Identity and Race Relations in the 1990's (by Ashley W. Doane, Jr.):  http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/DOANE/Whiteidentity.htm
• Sisseton, South Dakota: Dynamics of Whiteness in a Dakota Indian/White Community (senior thesis and website by Joanna Calhoun Horton): http://www.whiteculturestudy.us/
• Racism Has its Privileges (by Roger Wilkins): http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/Nation-3-27-95.htm

The following articles are available in the Boyden Library subscription databases:

• A Paler Shade of White (by Eric Arnesen)
• Racism and reparations: the time has come for whites to acknowledge the legacy of nearly 250 years of slavery and almost 100 years of legalized segregation (by Manning Marable)
• White spaces: if we would build a beloved community across racial lines, we must confront the ways that racism shapes and wounds not only persons of color, but also those who are white (by Tobin Miller Shearer)

Resources for Faculty

• Teaching about Whiteness (by Professor Gregory Jay, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, gjay@uwm.edu ):  http://www.uwm.edu/%7Egjay/Whiteness/Teachwhiteness.html
• Deconstructing Whiteness (by Professor Gregory Jay):  http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/syllabusf01.htm
• The Social Construction of Whiteness and Women (by Professor Arlene Avakian, UMASS, Amherst, avakian@wost.umass.edu ):  http://www.umass.edu/wost/syllabi/spring03/wost397l.htm
• Whiteness and Racial Difference (by Professor Peter Schmidt, Swarthmore, pschmid1@swarthmore.edu ):  http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/engl85/engl85.html
• Race and Ethnic Relations (by Professor Woody Doane, U. of Hartford, doane@mail.hartford.edu ):  http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/DOANE/racemenu.htm

Other related sources:

• ZNet Race Watch (A Community of People Committed to Social Change):  http://www.zmag.org/racewatch/racewatch.cfm
• Race:  the Power of an Illusion (online companion to a documentary about race in society, science, and history--includes a section for teachers, background readings, a discussion guide in pdf format, and several hundred resources related to race):  http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
• We Need Affirmative Action (from the Ford Foundation):  http://www.fordfound.org/news/view_reflection_detail.cfm?reflection_index=23