Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race / Edition 2

by Frances Kendall

Overview

Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day. Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life. It offers an unflinching look at how ignorance can perpetuate privilege, and offers practical and thoughtful insights into how people of all races can work to break this cycle. Based on thirty years of work in diversity and colleges, universities, and corporations, Frances Kendall candidly invites readers to think personally about how race -- theirs and others' -- frames experiences and relationships, focusing squarely on white privilege and its implications for building authentic relationships across race.

This much-anticipated revised edition includes two full new chapters, one on white women and another extending the discussion on race. It continues the important work of the first, deepening our knowledge of the recurring history on which cross-race relationships issues exist. Kendall's book provides readers with a more meaningful understanding of white privilege and equips them with strategies for making personal and organizational changes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415874274
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/11/2012
Series:	Teaching/Learning Social Justice
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	1,001,997
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Frances E. Kendall is a nationally known consultant who focuses on organizational change and communication, specializing in issues of diversity, social justice, and white privilege.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Beginning with Ourselves: The Importance of Doing Our Personal Work
Chapter Two: What’s In It For Us? Why We Would Explore What It Means to Be White
Chapter Three: What Does It Mean to Be White?
Chapter Four: Understanding White Privilege
Chapter Five: How White Women Reinforce the Supremacy of Whiteness
Chapter Six: Barriers to Clarity: What Keeps White People from Being Able to See Our Whiteness, and, Therefore, Our Privilege?
Chapter Seven: Now that (I Think) I Understand White Privilege, What Do I Do?
Chapter Eight: Talking about Race: What If They Call Me a Racist?
Chapter Nine: Talking About Whiteness and Being White
Chapter Ten: Becoming an Ally and Building Authentic Relationships Across Race: The Challenge and Necessity of Making Race Our Issue

Editorial Reviews

"Understanding White Privilege presents an assumed white reader with a workbook of sorts, a guide to accepting his or her own racial privilege and using that awareness to effect real change…Despite the text’s explicit address to a white reader, there is much here that will benefit people of color as well, particularly those teaching in predominantly white academic environments….Kendall’s book comes close to meriting the label "required reading" for anyone who aspires to a radically different racial future."—African American Review 2009, Volume 43, Number 1, 215-216

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