Resources
The Role of White Teachers in Antiracism
Babb, Valerie. (1998). Whiteness Visible. New York University Press. (Listen to interview with Diane Rehm on NPR.)
Baldwin, James. (1962). The Fire Next Time. Vintage International. (See also Orlando Edmunds, “Why James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time Still Matters.” Jstor Daily.)
Berry, Wendell. (1989). The Hidden Wound. Counterpoint Press. (See also Bill Moyers interview with Wendell Berry.)
Denevi, Elizabeth and Nick Pastan. (2006). “Helping Whites Develop Anti-Racist Identities: Overcoming Their Resistance to Fighting Racism.” Multicultural Education.
Denevi, Elizabeth. (2004). “White-On-White: Exploring White Racial Identity, Privilege, and Racism.” Independent School.
Denevi, Elizabeth. (2001). “Whiteness: Helping White Students and Educators Understand Their Role in a Multicultural Society.” Independent School.
Derman-Sparks, Louise. (1997). Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach. Teachers College Press.
Frankenberg, Ruth. (1993). White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. University of Minnesota Press.
DiAngelo, Robin. (2011). “Nothing to Add: The Role of White Silence in Racial Discussions.” Journal of Understanding and Dismantling Privilege,1 (2).
DiAngelo, Robin. (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard To Talk To White People About Racism. Beacon Press.
Giroux, Henry. (1997). “Rewriting the Discourse of Racial Identity: Towards a Pedagogy and Politics of Whiteness.” Harvard Educational Review. Vol. 67:2.
Gorski, Paul. (2000). “A Narrative on Whiteness and Multicultural Education.” Multicultural Philosophy Series, Part 2, McGraw Hill Multicultural Supersite.
Helms, Janet. (1992). A Race Is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life. Content Communications.
Howard, Gary. (1993). “Whites in Multicultural Education: Rethinking Our Role.” Phi Delta Kappan.
Ignatiev, Noel and John Garvey. (1996). Race Traitor. Routledge.
Katz, Judith. (1978). White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Kivel, Paul. (2002). Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. New Society Publishers.
Landsman, Julia. (2001). A White Teacher Talks About Race. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.
McIntosh, Peggy. (1988). White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies. Wellesley Centers for Women.
McIntyre, Alice. (1997). Making Meaning of Whiteness. State University of New York Press.
Parsons, Julie, and Kimberly Ridley. (2012). “Identity, Affinity, Reality.” Independent School.
Perry, Pamela. (2002). Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School. Duke University Press.
Roediger, David. (1998). Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to be White. Schocken Books.
Singley, Bernestine. (2002). When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories. Chicago Press Books. (Also listen to NPR’s related series, When Race Becomes Real.)
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. (1992). “Talking About Race, Learning About Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom.” Harvard Educational Review. Vol. 62:1.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. (2017). Why Are All the Black Children Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race. 20th Anniversary Edition. Basic Books. ***
Thandeka. (2000). Learning to Be White: Race and God in America. Continuum.
Van Ausdale, Debra, and Joe Feagin. (2001). The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism. Rowman & Littlefield.
Wise, Tim. (2005). White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. Soft Skull. (See also Tim Wise’s related talk at Google. See also our podcast with Tim Wise.)