About This Course


This course is for white people who are looking to deepen their commitment to a positive antiracist life and for people of color, as psychologist Dr. Janet Helms would say, working to “understand the white persons” in their lives. This course will give you more tools to help us achieve a healthy multiracial democracy where indeed free people can read freely.

Based on the book Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life, this course applies the White racial identity framework developed by Dr. Janet Helms to take a strong stance against racism. It will help you understand antiracist messaging and how to use it strategically to create a larger community of White antiracists.

Christine Saxman, a racial equity consultant and co-author of Being White Today, is the instructor for this course, which was created in winter 2025.

How This On-Demand Course Works


This Infopeople on Demand course is asynchronous, meaning that learners can take it any time. While the instructor is not available for discussion or feedback, this course is designed so that learners have unlimited access to materials and can participate at their own pace.

The course fee is $175. To pay by credit card, click on the "Enroll Now" button above. For information about group pricing, please contact us.

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Questions? Please contact [email protected].







Course Curriculum


  Start Here: Overview
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  Unit 1: Mapping the Road Ahead Toward a Positive Antiracist White Identity
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  Unit 2: Encountering the Other & Moral Dilemmas
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  Unit 3: Disintegration--Defending Whiteness & Toward Antiracism
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  Unit 4: Reintegration--Emerging Antiracism and Retreating into Whiteness
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  Unit 5: Pseudo-Independence & Immersion/Emersion
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  Unit 6: A Positive Antiracist Identity
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Infopeople is part of the Califa Group, a nonprofit consortium of libraries committed to unleashing the impact of libraries. Infopeople provides library workers quality continuing education opportunities that are tailored to library needs and developed by experienced library professionals. Training formats include 2-6 week online courses that include both synchronous and asynchronous components; on demand, self-paced courses; and free one-hour webinars.