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Witnessing Whiteness

The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action
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Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider their relationship to whiteness, the lingering shadows of racism, and the value of cultivating a self-reflective practice related to racial identity. The book includes personal testimony from well-respected cultural workers across race, such as Luis Rodriguez (author of Always Running), to offer dialogue not found anywhere else that illustrates how whiteness embeds itself in our psyche, lingers through continued social conditioning, and affects cross-race interactions as well as our ability to dismantle systems that uphold white dominance and oppression. In the midst of confusing and often contradictory messages, this new edition explains why developing an anti-racist white identity is an important part of cultivating an effective antiracist practice and is a necessary part of subverting the weaponizing of white identity cultivated by the far right.
Shelly Tochluk is a professor at Mount Saint Mary's University-Los Angeles. She is the author of Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It and Living in the Tension: The Quest for a Spiritualized Racial Justice. Free, downloadable workshop agendas and handouts aligned with each book are available at ShellyTochluk.com. Shelly volunteers with AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere-Los Angeles). For the last 13 years, she has co-produced AWARE-LA's 4-day summer institute titled, Unmasking Whiteness, which leads white people into a deeper understanding of their personal relationship to race, white privilege, and systemic racism.
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Getting Started on the Journey Chapter One: Naming and Defining the Problem Chapter Two: A Hidden History Chapter Three: Becoming Aware of Racism Chapter Four: Recognizing Missteps and Cultural Loss Part II: Guides on the Journey Chapter Five: Revealing Racial Identity Journeys Chapter Six: Meanings of Whiteness Chapter Seven: Learning through Conflict Chapter Eight: Lingering Racism Part III: The Work of Witnessing Whiteness Chapter Nine: Building Knowledge Chapter Ten: Building Skills Chapter Eleven: Building Capacity Chapter Twelve: Building Community Chapter Thirteen: Building a White Antiracist Culture Bibliography Index About the Author
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