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By Judith H. Katz
(University of Oklahoma Press, 2003 25th anniversary edition)
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Responding to the challenge of creating a learning environment in which to effectively address racism, White Awareness provides a detailed step-by-step guide through six stages of learning — from awareness to action. The exercises within each of the stages focus on key themes, including defining racism and its inconsistencies, confronting the reality of racism, exploring aspects and implications of white culture and identity, understanding cultural differences and examining cultural racism, analyzing individual racism, and developing action strategies to combat racism.
The newly revised edition includes more than forty activities with instructions and suggestions for conducting each exercise, as well as recommended readings and sources for use in the activities. Proving worthwhile in educational, business, community, and military settings, the program is detailed yet flexible. This volume has been updated to include new source information, insights on President Bill Clinton’s 1998 "Initiative on Race," and an analysis of controversial research on racism as a mental disorder.
"White Awareness is a trainer's dream. Clear, accessible, and effective, it contains basic but powerful tools for helping white people understand the extent and impact of racism while giving them skills for intervening in their daily lives. Every teacher and trainer working with white people on racism should have a copy."
— Paul Kivel, author of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
"As a white man in a social work practice that did diversity training, I wondered why no one talked about what it meant to be white in multiracial settings. In fact, whiteness seemed a taboo topic, so I felt isolated and misunderstood whenever I raised my concerns. Then I found White Awareness, and I knew that I was no longer alone."
— Jeff Hitchcock, executive director, Center for the Study of White American Culture
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