Category: Race

Decentering Whiteness: Dismantling privilege in the interest of racial justice | Everyday Race Blog

We were having a lively debate with a colleague the other day about whether systems of oppression continue to thrive because of individuals with malintent or if there is something beyond the individual at play- a more insidious normalcy and embeddedness that essentially sustains systems of oppression with or without individual action. We were arguing…
— Read on everydayraceblog.com/2016/01/14/decentering-whiteness-dismantling-privilege-in-the-interest-of-racial-justice/

When Women Disrupt: ‘Dismantle Whiteness and Misogyny on this Campus’ | USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

WHEN WOMEN DISRUPT (WWD) (an intersectional feminist artist collective composed of Jessica Sabogal, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh and Melinda James), collaborated with students from the “Women: Designing Media for Social Change” class. The event started out with a class discussion, then a panel discussion with the three artists and the greater USC Annenberg community.
— Read on annenberg.usc.edu/news/when-women-disrupt-dismantle-whiteness-and-misogyny-campus

Why my “good intentions” aren’t enough to dismantle white superiority | Everyday Democracy

What I was learning was that even though I didn’t consciously consider white skin to be a marker of superiority, I nonetheless had been socialized to believe that was true AND I had spent much of my life acting in good-intentioned ways that nonetheless perpetuated that damaging myth.
— Read on www.everyday-democracy.org/news/good-intentions-aren’t-enough-dismantle-white-superiority