Whiteness

Texts

"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
Text by Peggy Macintosh

"What Should White People Do?"
by Linda Martín Alcoff, Hypatia, Volume 13, Number 3. Explores three approaches toward engaging white people in a proactive antiracist stance that amounts "to more than self-criticism."

Websites

Deconstructing Whiteness
A selected bibliography

Teaching about whiteness
by Gregory Jay, English Department, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Why teach about whiteness? Approaches to whiteness, questions to ask: Exercises, Activities, Projects, Inquiries.

Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity
Article by Robyn Wiegman regarding the social construction of race

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