Über den Autor
Shelly Tochluk is a professor at Mount Saint Mary's University-Los Angeles. She is the author of Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It and Living in the Tension: The Quest for a Spiritualized Racial Justice. Free, downloadable workshop agendas and handouts aligned with each book are available at ShellyTochluk.com. Shelly volunteers with AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere-Los Angeles). For over a decade, she has co-produced AWARE-LA's 4-day summer institute titled, Unmasking Whiteness, which leads white people into a deeper understanding of their personal relationship to race, white privilege, and systemic racism.
Christine Saxman founded Saxman Consulting in the spring of 2020 where she provides racial and social justice training, facilitation, and coaching for educational, corporate, not-for-profit, and government organizations. She is a co-author of Western State Center's toolkit, Confronting Conspiracy Theories and Organized Bigotry at Home: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers. She also works on staff for the National SEED Project (Seeking Education Equity and Diversity). Prior to spending two years as an equity transformation specialist at Courageous Conversations About Race, Christine was an educator and equity leader at a suburban school district in Illinois. In 2016, she received recognition as an Illinois Golden Apple Finalist and Teacher of Distinction.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Deciding on a Direction: Which Way Do We Go?
Chapter Two: Mapping the Road Ahead: Toward a Positive, Antiracist White Identity
Chapter Three: Encountering the Other: Contact
Chapter Four: Moral Dilemmas: Disintegration
Chapter Five: Defending Whiteness: Disintegration
Chapter Six: Toward Antiracism: Disintegration
Chapter Seven: Retreating into Whiteness: Reintegration
Chapter Eight: Emerging Antiracism: Reintegration
Chapter Nine:False Confidence: Pseudo-Independence
Chapter Ten: Transformation: Immersion/Emersion
Chapter Eleven: Positive Antiracist White Identity: Autonomy
Chapter Twelve: It's Okay to Be White: Autonomy
Klappentext
Being White Today's suggested approaches guide readers to make strategic choices for themselves and others that resist white nationalist recruitment and reveal the benefits of antiracist appeals.
