Overview

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

• Faculty Guide to Enhance Multicultural Competence in Teaching

• Example Syllabus

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

  • Activity Demonstrating Race as a Social Construction

• 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

• 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)

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

• Intergroup Monopoly

• Racial Microaggression

• Tips for Constructive Reactions to Observed Microaggression

• Tips for Responding Productively After Unintentionally Committing a Microaggression

• Example Maps Showing Historic Redlining of Neighborhoods

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

• Teaching Anti-Racism

Chapter 8: (White) Workplaces

• Unintentional Segregation

• Occupational Segregation

Chapter 9: The Race of Public Policy

• Description of 2023 Supreme Court Ruling Ending Race-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions

• Evaluating Bias in News Reporting

Chapter 10: Looking Forward

• Jigsaw Classroom

• Responding to a Prejudiced Comment

• Analysis of Higher Education Statements Promising to Fight Racism