White Privilege Resource Guide

Learn more about USF's Check Your Privilege Campaign

What is White Privilege?

ARTICLES AND WEBSITES

• Frequently Asked Questions about Racism and White Privilege by Tim Wise
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack by Peggy McIntosh

BOOKS

• The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege by Robert Jensen. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race by Frances E. Kendall. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise. Book available to USF Library patrons.

VIDEOS

• The Privilege Checklist by ASAP Science
• The Promise: A Lesson in White Privilege by Storyteller Phyllis Unterschuetz
• White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America with Tim Wise. Streaming video available to USF Library patrons.

Evolution of Whiteness

• Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black And White Southern Children Learned Race by Grace Elizabeth Hale. Ebook and print book available to USF Library patrons.
• Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 by Grace Elizabeth Hale. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky by Pem Davidson Buck. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs by David R. Roediger. Ebook and print book available to USF Library patrons.

Pushing Back Against Privilege: Examples of White Allyship

BOOKS

• Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Catherine Fosl. 
• Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South by Catherine Fosl. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy by Chris Crass. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation edited by Karen L. Dace. Book available to USF Library patrons.
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel. Book available to USF Library patrons.

VIDEOS

• Anne Braden: Southern Patriot by Anne Lewis & Mimi Pickering. Streaming video available to USF Library patrons.
• Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity except on using white privilege to interrupt racism. DVD available to USF Library patrons.
• How to be a Good Ally with Melissa Harris-Perry
• Moving Past Guilt and Shame with Dr. Heather Hackman

Take Action: Tips, Training, and Organizations for White Allies

TIPS

• 5 Tips For Being An Ally by Chesca Leigh
• 4 Ways to Push Back Against Your Privilege by Mia McKenzie
• Black Liberation & White Anti-Racism in the Time of Ferguson panel presented by the Catalyst Project. Panelists include Alicia Garza, Kamau Walton, Robbie Clark, and Phil Hutchings.
• White Folks: Act Up Accountably by Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

TRAINING 

• Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program is a 4 month political education and leadership development program is designed to support the vision, strategy, and organizing skills of white activists in becoming accountable, principled anti-racist organizers building multiracial movements for justice.
• Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA) is a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. We work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training, and planning.
• National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) is a higher education conference designed to provide a significant forum for discussion, critical dialogue, and exchange of information as institutions search for effective strategies to enhance access, social development, education, positive communication, and cross-cultural understanding in culturally diverse settings.
• White Privilege Conference (WPC) is a conference that examines challenging concepts of privilege and oppression and offers solutions and team building strategies to work toward a more equitable world. WPC welcomes folks with varying levels of experience addressing issues of diversity, cultural competency, and multiculturalism. 

ORGANIZATIONS

• Bay Area Childcare Collective (BACC) began as a primarily white solidarity organization founded to support people of color led racial justice organizations. While we continue to center organizations composed of and led by m/others of color and low-income m/others, our own constituency and model has grown from its original foundation. Our current long-term partners are Causa Justa :: Just Cause, POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights), La Colectiva de Mujeres, and LeftRoots. We also work with other groups on a case by case basis as capacity allows.
• Catalyst Project (Bay Area) organizes, trains and mentors white people to take collective action to end racism, war and empire, and to support efforts to build power in working-class communities of color. In addition to offering organizational training and public programming, Catalyst offers the Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program, a four month intensive training for white social justice activists.
• Causa Justa :: Just Cause (Bay Area) invites you to support the organizing work of Black and Latino activists by volunteering for office support, the tenant rights clinic, justice cabs, and fundraising. Born through mergers between Black and Latino organizations, CJJC conducts grassroots campaigns around housing, employment and immigration rights.
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.
• White Noise Collective (Bay Area) Through blogs, workshops and monthly dialogues, we collectively investigate patterns common among people socialized as both white and female.