White Anti-Racism Folks Unrecognized

New Name - Striving Towards White Anti-Racism Folks

Mission Statement
We aim to open a space for white students on campus to get together to discuss issues of white privilege and racism on Hampshire's campus and the larger community. We are a space for peer education and group discussion, as well as smaller actions on campus to bring what we are discussing to a larger community. We meet weekly for discussion, and are also planning teach-ins, movie screenings, open discussions, etc.

Hampshire's History
"The Holmquist Report (1978)" Report on Racism at Hampshire College

Educational Resources for Everybody
White Allies in Anti-Racism resource zine that was created during Action Awareness Week and first distributed at the teach-in.

Peggy McIntosh's "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"

"Anti-Racism Foundational Definitions" provided by Groundwork (anti-racist Unitarian Universalist org)

"Checklist of the Ways White Folx Internalize Racism" from the book Undoing Racism by Paul Kivel

"Understanding People of Color Identity Development"

"The White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron: An Open Letter to "White Anti-Racists"" by Kil Ja Kim

Charles Mills' "The Racial Contract" Introduction

Elliot Jaspin's "Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America"

Audre Lorde's "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism"

Excerpt from "Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil" by Inga Muscio (a gorgeous, gorgeous book we maybe could read together)

Inga Muscio's "Imagination Reclamation Resource Guide," a list of amazing books, websites, hip-hop artists, movies etc with which to de-colonize our minds.

"To Hell with Good Intentions" by Ivan Illich - amazing speech about white students in the U.S. devoting all their concerns towards social justice issues abroad while forgetting about the importance of organizing around social justice issues and issues of racism at home.

"The Work Is Not the Workshop: Talking and Doing, Visibility and Accountability in the White Anti-Racist Community" by Catherine Jones

Tons of info. about class and classism

"Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism" - a website with resources and info

"The Prison-Industrial Complex" - this website breaks down the prison-industrial complex a bit. a really good book about this is Angela Davis' "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

"Free the NJ4!" - a site dedicated to freeing the 4 young black lesbians who were sent to prison for trying to defend themselves in NY's Greenwich Village

"Lakota Unilateral Withdrawal from All Agreements and Treaties with the United States of America"

"Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct Against Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender People in the U.S." - this report is an amazing resource for understanding the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality in terms of police brutality. as is the case w/ police brutality in general, the queer folx most targetted in this report are queers of color, homeless queers, and gender variant queers.

"The Gentrification of Gayness" - a brief essay about how white and more economically privileged GLBT folks participate in racist and classist systems like gentrification.

"Fenced OUT" documents the struggle of LGBTSTQ youth of color to save the Christopher Street pier and the West Village from re-development and gentrification. "FIERCE!" is a community organization for Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Queer, and Questioning (TLGBTSQQ) youth of color in New York City.

"Borderlands" by Gloria Anzaldúa

"Apartheid Wall: Why the Term 'Apartheid' Embodies Historic, Present, and Future of Palestine"

"A Black Feminist Statement: From The Combahee River Collective" is from April 1977, and is a key document in the history of Black women's struggle for liberation.

Action learning to undo racism - a list of some ways that white people can learn and act undo racism.

Organizing and Resistance/Organizations and Projects
"Incite!" is 'a national activist organization (in the U.S.) of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing'

Sustainable South Bronx - Environmental Justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs.

"Lakota Unilateral Withdrawal from All Agreements and Treaties with the United States of America"

"Free the NJ4!" - a site dedicated to freeing the 4 young black lesbians who were sent to prison for trying to defend themselves in NY's Greenwich Village

United for a Fair Economy is a national, independent, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality.

Aswat is a group of Palestinian queer people, who talk a lot about their intersectional oppressions as Palestinians, women, and queers.

"GAY SHAME" is an activist organization based in SF committed to combatting racism, classism, sexism, commercialism, transphobia, and all sorts of oppression within mainstream GLBT culture/politics.

We Care Concert - organized by The Hip Hop Caucus and Amnesty International in Washington, DC on the eve of the 5 year anniversary of the war in Iraq, to cultivate music, thought and action around two of the most pressing issues of our time: the “Internally Displaced Persons” here in the U.S. from Hurricane Katrina and the 4.5 million displaced Iraqis because of the U.S. occupation of Iraq (2 million are “internally displaced persons” inside Iraq and 2.5 million are refugees in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon.)