How Not to Appropriate: A Guide for White People
Though the lens of history and personal experience this article offers suggestions about how not to insensitively appropriate other cultures.
Survey Says Caucasians Don’t Believe They Have Advantages Over Black People
A Pew Research Center survey indicates that a great number of White people do not believe that they have significant cultural advantages over people of color.
Why Hollywood’s White Savior Obsession Is an Extension of Colonialism
An article about why Hollywood continues to make movies about people of color that feature White saviors.
Challenging Straight White College Men to Develop Positive Social Justice Advocacy
An academic article exploring the challenges in encourging straight white men to care about social justice.
My fellow white people: if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem
An argument for the importance of White people actively countering racism.
White Action Matters
An appeal to people in higher education to focus on the importance of White participation in action for social justice.
White People, It Is On Us To End Racism
A thoughful appeal to White people to take more responsibility for confronting racism.
How to Unlearn Racism and White Supremacy as a White American
Suggestions for White people about how to better understand racism and counter it’s impact.
On Loving White People and Hating Whiteness
A Black educated expresses the challenge of maintaining relationships with White people while dealing white privilege.
I’m a White Man. Hear Me Out.
An article about the perception that people with different privilege can’t understand one another’s experience.
When White People Say They Have My Back, What Does That Actually Mean?
For a few weeks in Portland, author Donnell Alexander got a glimpse of what real solidarity looks like.