Readings for today:
- Lindsay Kite, "Beauty Whitewashed: How White Ideals Exclude Women of Color," Beauty Redefined, February 28, 2011.
- Ursula K. LeGuin, "A Whitewashed Earthsea: How the Sci Fi Channel Wrecked My Books," Slate, December 16, 2004.
- Margaret Redlich, “People Don’t Want To See Problems On The Screen”: Why The West Won’t Watch Bollywood," Racialicious, August 29, 2012.
For further reading and research:
Readings for today:
- Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack."
- Robert Jensen, "White Privilege Shapes the US."
- 'Getting it White' - A PowerPoint Presentation on White Privilege/Supremacy.
- Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan, "Are Emily and Jane More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination,"American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 4 (2002).
- Rajeev Syal, "Undercover Job Hunters Reveal Huge Bias in Britain's Workplaces," The Observer, October 17, 2009.
- Racially loaded justifications for Obama's Re-Election via Think Progress (or, 'This is What White Supremacy Looks Like').
- Conor Friedersdorf, "The GOP Must Choose: Rush Limbaugh or Minority Voters," The Atlantic, Nov 9, 2012.
- Lorraine Berry, "'The Walking Dead' Has Become a White Patriarchy," Salon, Nov 11, 2012.
Nov 28 - Another take on whiteness
Readings for today:
- Ugo Corte and Bob Edwards, "White Power Music and the Mobilization of Racist Social Movements," Music and Arts in Action, Vol 1, No 1 (2008).
- Al Jazeera, "US Neo-Nazi Music Scene Flourishing" (video)
- White Power USA (video)
- Geoff Edgers, "Definite Hate: White Trash," GQ, September, 2001.
- Worker Fired from Cold Stone for Racist Remarks (and Denies Racism), Huffington Post, Nov 9, 2012.
