Reading list for the White Privi

Reading list for the White People Anti-Racist Study Group

White people anti-racist study group - The study group is for people with white skin who wish to study/unlearn racism/white supremacy. .In addition to being of European dissent or passing many of the people work with prisoners in someway although this isn’t a total requirement but will be a focus.

WEEK ONE – Definitions and the Invisible Knapsack of Privilege

Definitions – Colours of resistance - Definitions: http://colours.mahost.org/faq/definitions.html
Chris Crass “Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change and other people socialized in a society based on domination”
“Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race” - http://www.newsreel.org/guides/race/10things.htm
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack – Peggy McIntosh http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/%7Emcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html

Hello my race is white - the 12 white steps - by damali ayo (one page of the pdf)

http://damaliayo.com/pdfs/I%20CAN%20FIX%20IT_racism.pdf

WEEK TWO - Class and Race - Connecting people and poverty and poverty and prisons

Selections from The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide by Lui, Robles, Leondar-White, Brewer, Adamson with United for a Fair Economy.
White Trash Blues: Class Privilege v. White Privilege by BetaCandy http://blindprivilege.com/white-trash-blues-class-privilege-v-white-privilege/
Crime Punishment and Economic Violence by Patricia Allard
There is no Hierarchy of Oppression by Audre Lorde

WEEK THREE - How does the savior complex/paternalism play out in prisons?

Do Muslim Women Need to be Saved?
Barriers to Organization Between Anti Racist White People by Joanie Mayer http://www.cwsworkshop.org/pdfs/CARC/Challenging_White_SJ/3_Barriers.PDF
Don’t liberate me! By S.R.
To all those who were Indian in a former life by Andy Smith

WEEK FOUR - Our story – Telling the stories of our families while trying to focus and highlight privileges that we have because of race

Tips on preparing your family story from animal freedom http://www.animalfreedom.info/study/wcr/familyhistory.html

Selection from Classified: How to stop hiding your privilege and fight for social change by Karen Pittelman + Resource Generation
Tips from the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop http://www.cwsworkshop.org/pdfs/CARC/Family_Herstories/3_Family_Herstories.PDF
Coming to Terms with Profiting from Slavery, White Responsibility, and Freedom Farm Coop- about Frannie Lou Hammer all from The Color of Wealth (its only one page for all)

WEEK FIVE - Prisons and Power

Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex Joint Statement from Critical Resistance – INCITE
Political Prisoners, Mumia and Death Row – Speech from Geronimo jiJaga 1999
The Four that Got Away – November Coalition (politicians and drug war)
Prisons: New Forms of Environmental Racism by Critical Resistance
A Brief History of New Afrikan Prison Struggle by Sundiata Acoli (political prisoner)
Abolishing the Prison Industrial Complex Rachel Herzing in conversation with Trevor Paglen http://paglen.com/carceral/interview_rachel_herzing.htm

WEEK SIX – Critiquing our groups/Leadership

Services Projects or Social Change by Paul Kivel from Revolution with not be Funded

·        White Supremacy in the Movement against the Prison-Industrial Complex Journal article by Liz Appel; Social Justice, Vol. 30, 2003

Why does the group look the way it looks? “Hope for the Flowers” ?? this is diane’s comment im not sure what it means.

WEEK SEVEN

Levels of Institutional Racism
Continuum on Becoming an anti racist multi cultural institution
The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the discourse of ‘white privilege’ by Zeus Leonardo
Heteropatriachy and the 3 pillars of white supremacy by Andrea Smith
To the Beautiful People holding hands when Nothing went down in a Big Way by Peter Gelderloss

Intellectualism – educated-ism, classism? How do you choose what materials to send?

WEEK EIGHT Accountability, Self-criticism, Ally Building

How do we address race in real life? Brainstorm how to normalize talking about race.

What Happens When White People Change by Bell Hooks
Being a Strong White Ally and more by Paul Kivel
I Can Fix It! by damali ayo http://damaliayo.com/pdfs/I%20CAN%20FIX%20IT_racism.pdf
With Allies Like These, You Don’t Need Enemies: Michael Moore and the Racism of the White Left by Ewuare Osayande http://illvox.org/2007/06/22/with-allies-like-these-you-don%e2%80%99t-need-enemies-michael-moore-and-the-racism-of-the-white-left/
25 Ways to Tokenize a non white person http://colours.mahost.org/org/25ways.html
Poem from “Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery” – Pamela Sneed
History of White Anti-Racists - race traitor, White Like Me, Eileen O’Brien – “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action”