Waking Up White Chapter 16: Logos and Stereotypes Examining the absorbed assumptions that shape our thinking

Chapter 15: The Whole Story The Reading "What is it that makes facing mistakes, weaknesses, or regrets so terrible that they must be completely and utterly denied?" The author highlights how we create stories from a single perspective, which comes from, reinforces, and becomes our baseline for judging things that relate to it. She gives... Continue Reading →

"True to any self-perpetuating system, the path of least resistance served to maintain the system."

"Discrimination and privilege are flip sides of the same coin."

In this chapter, the author comes to the realize that history is written by the victors, and the people who define the system of measurement get to decide what gets measured and how.

Blog Challenge: Waking Up White - Chapter 11: Headwinds and Tailwinds In which the author gives a really brilliant illustration of systemic racism

Waking Up White Blog Challenge - Chapter 10: The Melting Pot

Blog Challenge: Waking Up White - Chapter 9: White Superiority. In which we explore the bizarre origin of the term Caucasian as a description for white people.

Racial Categories and the nonsense things we think we "know" about "race."

#WakingUpWhite Blog Challenge, Chapter 7: the GI Bill