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Presentation Content: Eleanor's Slides (Awareness Practices to Shed Bias) | David's Slides (Histories of Racial Bias)

Study Materials​

Anti-Black Racism, the Minstrel Show, and the Making of Whiteness – Chris Crass (pages 22-25 / 8-10 min read)

 

Using Dog Whistles to Undermine Government – Video from Ian Haney López (2 min watch). If you're interested, click here for more from Haney López's Race-Class Academy. Note: In session one we critiqued liberalism for not going far enough to meet people's economic needs. In this video Haney López uses the term in the positive because, when compared to right wing government, it calls for a more sizable social safety net. This was particularly true prior to the 1980s before Reagan successfully shifted all of mainstream politics to the right.

 

Anti-Asian Racism Creates Inequality for All – Excerpt from an Essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen (5 min read)

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Invisibility is the Modern form of Racism Against Native Americans – Rebecca Nagle (5 min read)

 

Excerpt from MLK’s 1965 Speech in Montgomery, AL, about how Jim Crow was a tool explicitly (and effectively) designed to destroy the multiracial Populist movement that flourished briefly in the late 1800s (4 min read).

 

What the media gets wrong about the Trump supporter caricature – Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti interview George Goehl of People’s Action (9 min watch)

 

Jack Metzgar | WA Handout - selections from various works by Jack Metzgar (10-15 min) / Please do not publicly or privately share White Awake handouts. We encourage sharing of the original sources only. Ty!