Overview

This electronic resource organizes multidisciplinary demonstrations, activities, examples, and images for researchers and instructors who seek to explain racism and reveal white privilege.

Resources for Multicultural Competence in Teaching

• Faculty Guide to Enhance Multicultural Competence in Teaching

Chapter 1: The Invisibility of Whiteness

Chapter 2: Scientific Endeavors to Study Race: Whiteness Is Not Rooted in Biology

• Race as Social Illusion, Not Biology
• Anthropological Exploration of Race as Social, Not Biology
• Eugenics Archive
• Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 3: Race and the Social Construction of Whiteness

• Radio Documentary on the Social Construction of Race
• Making Stereotypes Visible
• Empathic Communication About Race
• Allophilia: Positive Attitude Toward an Outgroup
• Critical Multicultural Approach to Cultural Competency

Chapter 4: Ways of Seeing Power and Privilege

• Decontextualized and Problematic Appropriations
• Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise
• Intersectionality: Intersecting Identities
• Talking to White Kids About Race

Chapter 5: Socioeconomic Class and White Privilege

• Privilege Walk
• Intergroup Monopoly
• Wealth and Latino Advocacy for Civil Rights
• Racial Microaggression

Chapter 6: (Not) Teaching Race

• Reducing Stereotype Threat
• Brown v. Board of Education, Separate Is Not Equal
• Resources for Teaching Civil Rights Movement
• Nonviolence in Civil Rights Movement
• Hate Crime Laws and Statistics

Chapter 7: (White) Workplaces

• Unintentional Segregation
• Identifying Personal Experience With Segregation

Chapter 8: The Race of Public Policy

• Affirmative Action and White Privilege
• Evaluating Bias in News Reporting

Chapter 9: Looking Forward

• Jigsaw Classroom
• Responding to a Prejudiced Comment
• Confronting Anti-Semitism
• Confronting Anti-Arab Prejudice
• Taking Action Against Racism on Campus