LibGuides: Systemic Racism &amp; White Privilege: White privilege

Past Vogel Library posters on white privilege

Quote from Between the Worlds and Me poster image

White privilege materials

Top picks for learning about white privilege:

Here are some of our top picks for what's in the library.

Thank you for patience as we navigate our staff availability in this time of Covid-19 to add as many eBooks as possible for increased access. At the bottom of the page, you can find options for finding more materials or requesting the library purchases a title!

White rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Print book (eBook on order)
White fragility: Why it’s so hard to talk to white people about racism
Print book (eBook on order)
White self-criticality beyond anti-racism
Both print and eBook accessible on this link
Witnessing whiteness: The need to talk about race and how to do it
Print book (eBook on order)
So you want to talk about race
Print only
White like me: reflections on race from a privileged son (print)
Print only
What does it mean to be white: Developing white racial literacy
Print only
Waking up white: And finding myself in the story of race
Print only

DVDs and streaming videos:

White like me (streaming)
Documentary streaming in our Kanopy database based on the book of the same name.
Blindspotting (DVD)
Feature film written by Daveed Diggs
Last black man in San Francisco (DVD)
Feature film

Last black man in San Francisco (streaming)
Feature film streaming in our Kanopy database

Even more great resources:

White awake: An honest look at what it means to be white
Print book (eBook on order)
Privilege: a reader
Print only
Everyday forms of whiteness: Understanding race in a "post-racial" world
Both print and eBook accessible on this link
Everyday white people confront racial & social injustice: 15 stories
Print book (eBook on order)
The possessive investment in whiteness: How white people profit from identity politics
Print book (eBook linked below)

The possessive investment in whiteness how white people profit from identity politics (eBook)
eBook (print book linked above)

Colored White : transcending the racial past
Print book (eBook linked below)

Colored White Transcending the Racial Past (eBook)
eBook (print book linked above)

Good white people: The problem with middle-class white anti-racism
Print book (eBook linked below)

Good white people : the problem with middle-class white anti-racism (eBook)
eBook (print book linked above)

The history of White people
Print only

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