By Pia Guerrero, Co-Founder/Editor Last week we had a rather lively Facebook debate around white privilege. Now while a few FB friends acknowledged their (Today's post looks at 'well-meaning' white privilege gone wrong i.e.
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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States is so important for understanding the new form that racism has taken,... Delete the scoop?
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The great thing about being a liberal/radical academic is that even falsifying data isn't enough to seriously tarnish one's reputation. Franz Boas's finagling of his data on the skull shapes of imm... Delete the scoop?
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Honors Colloquium Fall 2010 Speaker Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is a Professor of Sociology at Duke University. Perceptions about race shape everyday experiences, ... Delete the scoop?
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Research finds institutional practices and structures helped determine vast expansion in race wealth gap Delete the scoop?
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Systems of wealth and income inequality in the service of white supremacy matured in the post-World War 2 era with the G.I. Bill and the FHA and VA home loan programs. Tens of millions of veterans and their families could take advantage of these wealth transferal programs. Black soldiers, and other people of color, were systematically denied access to this massive inter-generational transfer of wealth and income.
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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, Duke University; author of "Racism Without Racists." Delete the scoop?
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The Media Missed Model Cameron Russell's Point in Her TEDx Talk PoliticusUSA (blog) Cameron tied the idea of white privilege to the idea of body image per the values of our culture, succinctly unwrapping white privilege for anyone who doesn't think...
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Whiteness, Normal Theory, and Disability Studies Delete the scoop?
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Alana Lentin and Valérie Amiraux: Not talking about races does not lead naturally to the demise of 'race thinking' – it just obscures the persistent inequalities Delete the scoop?
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White Privilege: 10 Ways to be an Ally http://t.co/JiaLklJs Delete the scoop?
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Many Brazilians cast their country as racial democracy where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population.
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t’s simply easier to coast through life not worrying about others (other than those immediately associated with you). It takes effort to know those not like us, to study history and ask hard questions. This apathy could be masked by the thought, “Haven’t we all moved past racism now.” Via Rexi44 Delete the scoop?
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Economists see discrimination as a form of economic inefficiency -- and a massive misallocation of human resources Delete the scoop?
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This is the main title of a new book by Rory Pilossof from the University of Pretoria and published by Weaver Press in Zimbabwe. The book documents the voices of white farmers in Zimbabwe through a... Delete the scoop?
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Colorblindness can do the work of racial inequality and White Privilege. The young black and brown youth at Mendota did not kill dozens of people. Was this because of opportunity, resources, culture, or identity? Delete the scoop?
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The truth about South Africa's peaceful transition and the everyday of democracy is as messy as the contested version of events on February 14. Delete the scoop?
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The University of Wisconsin Duluth-Superior says it is not backing down from its involvement in a controversial diversity campaign featuring white models with “Society was set up for us” and “Is white skin really fair skin?
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"America has a proud history of anti-racism – like the Declaration of Independence, abolitionists, Nat Turner, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation, the Radical Republicans, Reconstruction, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr, the civil rights movement, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Angela Davis and so much else.
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