Here’s a useful essay up at Huffington Post which goes through the basic reasoning behind the assertion that “reverse racism” is not a useful or authentic claim.

Here’s a great piece that offers some useful advice to white teachers who want to resist racism in their classrooms.

Here’s a set of stunning visualizations via mapping technology of segregation in the US.

Vivian and I have often used the 1935 city planning map of Minneapolis in our dismantling racism work, and now here is the one for St. Paul, as well, along with thoughtful analysis of how transportation planning cut up vibrant and robust African-American neighborhoods.

Those of us who carry white privilege can do more to counter some of the ignorance out there. Here’s a great start!

Here’s a very useful and concise “explainer” concerning the social construction of race in the US.

A great reminder of the ways white privilege can capture a discussion, even with the best intentions.  Austin Channing wonders…

One day I would like to try hosting a workshop where people of color tell their stories, and thats it. Period.

Where people of color talk, vent, laugh, cry and affirm one another’s racial realities.

Where white people don’t talk, don’t justify, don’t question.

Where white people are given different rules that require seeking permission to participate.

Where white people are expected to connect the dots themselves, to own their learning, to manage their emotions.

I wonder if white privilege could be taught by eliminating even the small privileges/rules that typically serve white folks well in a classroom setting.

This is not an exercise intended to be mean or to make white people feel awful. Nor is it an exercise to minimize the stories and experiences of white people. I just want to spend a little more time asking myself what it would be like for the priority to be reversed.

Rather than judging the success of my training on whether or not white people walked away understanding privilege; could I define success based on the emotional energy of people of color after the training is done? Could I so center the experience of people of color that they walk away feeling some measure of healing, of energy, of understanding about themselves and each other? Could they leave more alive then when they came?