Being White & Privilege
What is White?
Two good introductory books, with different styles:
Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise.
AWARE-LA is an Los Angeles based group, their page includes some useful information.
Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise.
AWARE-LA is an Los Angeles based group, their page includes some useful information.
Learning about (white) privilege
The classic: Peggy McIntosh's Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, only two pages!
A one-hour talk by Tim Wise entitled White Privilege, Racism, White Denial, and the Cost of Inequality.
A one-hour talk by Tim Wise entitled White Privilege, Racism, White Denial, and the Cost of Inequality.
Straight White Male: The lowest Difficulty Setting There Is by John Scalzi A quick read and a great gaming analogy to explain privilege.
When it doesn't feel like privilege...
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran. (This was picked up and reposted by other news outlets, so you can google it if the original link goes dead.)
On the more academic side
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race by Jean Halley, Amy Eschleman, Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya