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White Privilege

On Suzy Lee Weiss, Abigail Fisher and Unpacking White Privilege in Higher Education

Krystie Yandoli | Posted 05.02.2013 | College
Krystie Yandoli

It's necessary for students to start engaging in dialogues and being productive in social action against inherent forms of racism instead of perpetuating backwards, ill-informed ideas.

To (All) the Colleges That Accepted Me

Emmett Rensin | Posted 04.12.2013 | College
Emmett Rensin

Despite the unfairness of our college admissions process, we still live in an America where even if privilege can't protect your slot at a top school from a slob like me, it can still give you a very large public forum in which to complain about it.

Janell Ross

How Friendly White People Drive Black Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 03.29.2013 | Black Voices

There's a comforting-to-white-people fiction about racism and racial inequality in the United States today: They're caused by a small, recalcitrant gr...

Strengthening My Filipino Pride Through My Gay Pride

JR Tungol | Posted 05.05.2013 | Gay Voices
JR Tungol

When I hit puberty, my homosexuality was something I could not let slip. I did not want to disappoint my traditional Filipino parents, and in that vein, I grew angry toward them and thought that they would never understand my feelings and what I was going through.

UW-Superior Stands By Ads Criticized As 'Racist' Toward Whites

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.21.2013 | Black Voices

The University Of Wisconsin-Superior has announced that, despite criticism, the school intends to continue its support for the "Un-Fair" campaign, a l...

The Responsibility to End Racism

Darron T. Smith, Ph.D. | Posted 04.19.2013 | Black Voices
Darron T. Smith, Ph.D.

White racism is a systemic phenomenon that is deeply woven in the fabric of our society and has a corrosive effect on the minds, bodies and souls of all Americans.

Reconciling LGBT Folks And Jesus: Not Black And White

Rev. Dr. Cindi Love | Posted 04.20.2013 | Religion
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love

If a heterosexually identified Christian clergy man of color from Nigeria can change his mind about the way God expects him to treat gay people, then the rest of us may be able to do so as well

Gay Will Never Be The New Black: What James Baldwin Taught Me About My White Privilege

Todd Clayton | Posted 04.14.2013 | Gay Voices
Todd Clayton

As a white gay man committed to advocacy, I was naturally drawn to Baldwin and eager to hear what he had to say about LGBTQ equality in America. What I discovered, though, was not at all what I was expecting.

Oppressed (Wo)Man's Burden

Marcus Lee | Posted 04.08.2013 | Black Voices
Marcus Lee

Herein lies Oppressed (Wo)Man's Burden: Not only are we naturally accountable to the internal wellbeing of our respective communities, but we are also expected to continuously show up in the oppressor's space each and every time we'd like our communities' needs to be heard.

Prof. Robert Jensen Discusses Racism, White Supremacy and White Privilege (Part 3)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 04.08.2013 | Black Voices
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Martin Luther King, as many would argue, and I would be one of them, has essentially been white washed. He's been turned into a figure to represent the civilized movement but a figure that has been stripped of all his radical politics and analysis.

Prof. Robert Jensen Discusses Racism, White Supremacy and White Privilege (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 03.24.2013 | Black Voices
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

There is history that happened in other parts of the world -- in Africa, in Asia -- but we're not getting that in our books. History/civilization before America existed, while Europe was still in caves.

'White Privilege' Lesson At Wisconsin School Draws Ire

Posted 01.17.2013 | Home

A Wisconsin high school is under fire after a parent accused a diversity class of promoting a critical race theory, alleging that students are being t...

Prof. Robert Jensen Discusses Racism, White Supremacy and White Privilege (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Racism isn't just about disliking people because of the color of their skin or a religious affiliation or an ethnic affiliation or something like that. When we talk about racism we have to talk about its roots in white supremacy.

White Privilege and the Snow-White Santa

Lisa Wade | Posted 02.26.2013 | Black Voices
Lisa Wade

Theoretically anyone could be Santa.Ā Yet, while we may see theĀ occasionalĀ non-white Santa at the mall or in novelty holiday stories, he is unbearably and overwhelmingly white in our (google-able) imagination.

Soul Seasoning

Kenya (Robinson) | Posted 01.30.2013 | Arts
Kenya (Robinson)

E'rybody in the Othered Art World is harrumphing over the review of "Now Dig This" in the New York Times.

Race in America With Renowned Anti-Racist Author and Educator Tim Wise

Ginnie Love | Posted 12.22.2012 | Politics
Ginnie Love

Tim Wise has been writing and lecturing on white privilege and race in America since the '90s. I had a chance to sit down and have a conversation with Tim over the summer.

Barack Obama on White Privilege: And Why Progressives Need to Listen

Ian Reifowitz | Posted 12.01.2012 | Black Voices
Ian Reifowitz

Berating the resentful among the white working class for their bigotry would, without question, lead any of them who were listening to stop, and to dismiss the speaker as someone who just doesn't get them.

Hot New Style for Fall: Don Virtual Blackface and Learn About Racism!

Ken Schneck, PhD | Posted 10.02.2012 | College
Ken Schneck, PhD

I flipped the postcard over to find the trumpeting of The Race Experience, an "exciting, new interactive kiosk that allows us to see ourselves in a different skin... to change our 'race' and become Black, White, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian and Hispanic." Holy. Hell.

What We Can't Afford to Do Again

Joan Walsh | Posted 11.27.2012 | Politics
Joan Walsh

No matter what's going on in the world, the right can find a cultural issue that will get the left to fight itself, to atomize into little groups, and to give voice to factions that frighten Americans on the sidelines -- often, the left-out white middle and working class -- and the country winds up the worse for it.

Packing the Invisible Knapsack

Ernestine Hayes | Posted 10.01.2012 | Home
Ernestine Hayes

People of color had been talking and writing about white privilege for years, but when the emperor himself realizes he's naked, everyone checks their pants.

Whiteness Matters

Dr. David J. Leonard | Posted 09.30.2012 | Black Voices
Dr. David J. Leonard

The failed responses, at a rhetorical and a policy level in the aftermath of Katrina and post-Trayvon highlights a persistent failure to account for American racism.

The White Privilege Field Guide to Progressivism

Matthew Harrison Tedford | Posted 09.24.2012 | Impact
Matthew Harrison Tedford

As a writer intimately familiar with the experiences of the white, middle class progressive, I offer this field guide as an attempt to find nuance in the realm between privilege and progressivism.

Finding Our Social Location At Wild Goose

Jeremy John | Posted 08.28.2012 | Religion
Jeremy John

Whether or not upper-middle-class Americans choose simple living, activism and following Christ, we'll always be choosing, and that colors our theology. But some folks don't have a choice.

My Lesson From College: Hard Work and Privilege Aren't Mutually Exclusive

Josh A. Goodman | Posted 07.23.2012 | College
Josh A. Goodman

I feel a responsibility to use my privilege to address privilege. This comes through my awareness of privilege and prejudices, and my efforts to critically address my own prejudices and call others out on theirs, too.

On Trayvon Martin and Building Transracial Solidarity

Victoria Coats | Posted 06.16.2012 | Black Voices
Victoria Coats

In the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin, some people have been reminded that anti-black racist violence is, in fact, a regular problem in the Unit...