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 Teaching
Chapter 1: The Invisibility of Whiteness
- Social Power Demonstration
- Evidence of Racism
- Social Psychological Understanding of Prejudice
- Talking About Prejudice and Discrimination
- Talking About Race
- Conversation on Caste, Race, and Bias with Journalist Isabel Wilkerson and Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt
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
• COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed Resource Injustice for Tribal Nations
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: White Supremacy and Other Forms of Everyday Racism
• Racism as Integral to the History of the United States (1619 Project)
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Chapter 5: 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 6: Socioeconomic Class and White Privilege
• Privilege Walk
• Intergroup Monopoly
• Wealth and Latino Advocacy for Civil Rights
• Racial Microaggression
• Tips for Responding Productively After Unintentionally Committing a Microaggression
Chapter 7: (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
- Teaching Anti-Racism
Chapter 8: (White) Workplaces
• Unintentional Segregation
• Identifying Personal Experience With Segregation
Chapter 9: The Race of Public Policy
• Affirmative Action and White Privilege
• Evaluating Bias in News Reporting
Chapter 10: Looking Forward
• Jigsaw Classroom
• Responding to a Prejudiced Comment
• Confronting Anti-Semitism
• Confronting Anti-Arab Prejudice
• Taking Action Against Racism on Campus