Anti-Oppression Resources

A compilation by Organizing for Power, Organizing for Change

• Anti-Oppression Principles and Practices
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by PeggyMcIntosh
• A Community Builders Toolkit: Tools for Creating Healthy, Productive Interracial/Multicultural Communities, 40 pages
• Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture, by Tema Okun
• Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change… and Other People Socialized in a Society Based on Domination, by Chris Crass
• The Role of White People in Ending Racism
• White Protesters, Black Cops: A Reality Check from Training for Change, by Barbara Smith
• Healing from the Effects of Internalized Oppression, from the Community Tool Box
• To Equalize Power Among Us – tips for keeping your privilege in check from Tools for Change
• Creating Democratic Culture, from Tools for Change
• Concepts for Creating Justice: Looking at Power Relationally, from Tools for Change
• Challenging Oppressive Moments
• Domination Techniques: What they are and how to combat them

White Victim Mentality

The new study by Michael Norton (Harvard) and Samuel Sommers (Tufts) is filling up pages and pages of news”papers” and bringing up many ideas around affirmative action.

• Is Anti-White Bias a Problem? room for debate on The New York Times

• I’m afraid the best I have found is in Spanish: “Aún hacen falta cuotas raciales” at elpais.com

• Some things mentioned in the more extensive analysis (note: yes, some of them are scary):

• Grutter v. Bollinger (wiki summary)

• Ricci v. DeStefano (wiki summary)

• The Negro Family by Mr. Moynihan (a comment on it)

Biopolitics of Race

Dorothy E. Roberts talks about the biopolitics of race in her new book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century (a short article about it here) and her article What’s Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?: Genes, Drugs and Health Disparities

"White stuff"

Ashmore consultants ask you to consider How white is your world?