Everyday Racism: Questions and Quandaries Table of Contents
Everyday Racism: Questions & Quandaries – 3rd in What Was I Thinking? essay series (2015)
Table of Contents
Who’s Beautiful? Who’s Not? Who is attractive? And who decides? A news article about “jolie laide” still grates on me.
What’s Behind the Power of a Stare? When is a “long look” okay, simply rude, or even racist?
Why Read Slave Narratives? My students borrow my racism-related books, but never select a slave narrative. Why?
In the Face of Resistance: A Lay Facilitator’s Experience: What to do when students in my anti-racism class resist its basic premise?
It’s My Job, Not His, to Counter Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: My husband, who is Jewish, doesn’t fret over lingering prejudices, while I need to unravel each one.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves About the People Who Came Before Us: I heard one family story growing up, then discovered a truer story.
Is Racism Too Entrenched to Be Defeated? Can we end racism? If not, should we keep trying?
Racial Justice Books Worth Reading: Here’s Why: These eighteen books are about looking at our lives through the lens of race, examining deeper dimensions of racial justice pioneers, getting our facts straight, learning from collective experiences, and imagining lives through fiction.