Start Here: Overview
Unit 1: Mapping the Road Ahead Toward a Positive Antiracist White Identity
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Unit 1 Overview
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WATCH: Presentation - Mapping the Road Ahead (5:22)
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WATCH: Presentation - Introduction to the White Identity Framework and Statuses (6:26)
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WATCH: "Racial Justice Freeway"--Unite4Equality (2:45)
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READ: "On-ramps and Lanes on the Racial Justice Freeway" by Shelly Tochluk (11 min read)
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LISTEN: Teaching While White (Podcast Episode #16)--"Racial Identity for White People," with Dr. Janet Helms (31:26)
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EXPLORE: Optional Resources for Unit 1
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Application Activity #1
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Application Activity #2
Unit 2: Encountering the Other & Moral Dilemmas
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Unit 2 Overview
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WATCH: Presentation - Disintegration--The Moral Dilemmas (5:26)
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WATCH: “Color Blind or Color Brave?"--Mellody Hobson, TEDTalks (14:15)
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WATCH: "Race and Children" -- Ibram X. Kendi (0:47)
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READ: “We Will Not Be Silent: Amplifying Marginalized Voices in LIS Education and Research” by Amelia Gibson and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
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Application Activity #1
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Application Activity #2
Unit 3: Disintegration--Defending Whiteness & Toward Antiracism
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Unit 3 Overview
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WATCH: Presentation - Disintegration--Defending Whiteness (2:19)
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WATCH: Presentation - Disintegration--Toward Antiracism (3:15)
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WATCH: “Bad White People”--Travis Jones, TEDxCharlotte (16:45)
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WATCH: "What White People Can Do To Move Race Conversations Forward"--Caprice Hollins, TEDxSeattle (15:36)
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WATCH: “Listening to Shame”--Brene Brown, TEDTalks (20:39)
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WATCH: “How Can I Have A Positive Racial Identity? I’m White!”--Ali Michael, TEDxCheltenham (16:28)
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Application Activity #1
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Application Activity #2
Unit 4: Reintegration--Emerging Antiracism and Retreating into Whiteness
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Unit 4 Overview
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WATCH: Presentation - Reintegration--Emerging Antiracism (3:30)
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WATCH: Presentation - Reintegration--Retreating into Whiteness (2:07)
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LISTEN: Why is this Happening? (Podcast Episode #49)--"Dying of Whiteness" with Dr. Jonathan Metzl (56:35)
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LISTEN: Safe Space Radio (Podcast Episode, April 12, 2019)--"Talking to White Kids About Race and Racism" (59:00)
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WATCH: "Truth, Love, and Racial Literacy"--Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz, TEDxPenn (15:03)
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READ: “Christian Nationalism, Christian Globalism, and White People” by David A. Hollinger, Princeton University Press
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EXPLORE: Optional Resources for Unit 4
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Application Activity #1
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Application Activity #2
Unit 5: Pseudo-Independence & Immersion/Emersion
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Unit 5 Overview
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WATCH: Presentation - Pseudo-Independence--False Confidence (2:01)
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WATCH: Presentation - Immersion/Emersion--Transformation (1:49)
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WATCH: “Let’s Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability”--Sonya Renee Taylor (17:55)
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WATCH: "Why Are Most Librarians White Women?"--Stacks & Facts (11:28)
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LISTEN: The Final Straw (Podcast Episode)--"Cancellation, Abolition, and Healing," with adrienne maree brown (1:10:59)
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WATCH: Unequal Opportunity Race (4:09)
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READ: “Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies we Tell Ourselves" by Fobazi Ettarh
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EXPLORE: Optional Resources for Unit 5
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Application Activity #1
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Application Activity #2
Unit 6: A Positive Antiracist Identity
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Unit 6 Overview
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WATCH: Presentation - Autonomy--Positive Antiracist White Identity (1:23)
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WATCH: "The Expanding Definition of Whiteness"--Nell Irvin Painter (6:12)
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EXPLORE: Optional Resources for Unit 6
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Application Activity #1
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Application Activity #2
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Course Feedback
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