Healing from Whiteness

“White supremacy is a project of psychic conditioning and toxic belonging.”

~ White Supremacy Culture: Still Here, by Tema Okun ~

Books

  • Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, by Louise Dunlap

  • Ethnoautobiography: Stories and Practices for Unlearning Whiteness, Decolonization, Uncovering Ethnicities, by Jürgen Wermer Kremer and R. Jackson-Paton

  • Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief About Racism, by Ann Todd Jealous and Caroline T. Haskell

  • Whiteness is Not an Ancestor: Essays on Life and Lineage by White Women, edited by Lisa Iversen

  • Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter

  • Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving

  • White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo

  • Classified: How to Stop Hiding your Privilege and Use it For Social Change, by Karen Pettelman and Resource Generation

  • So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

  • Learning to Be White: Money, Race, and God in America, by Thandeka

  • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem

  • It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to Break the Cycle, by Mark Wolyn

  • White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao

Articles

Interactive Maps

Podcasts

Guides

Practitioners and Community

Reckon With

White Awake

Erin Caitlin Sweeney

Morgan Curtis

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

White Men For Racial Justice

Videos

Receiving Life in Ancestral Blueprints

How is your life influenced by past generations? This talk delves into a deeper connection that many people overlook between their past and that of their country's in relationship to their current situation.

 
 

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War History

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum families that used their social and political clout to fundraise and pressure local governments to erect monuments that memorialized Confederate heroes.

Deconstructing White Privilege with Robin DiAngelo

Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses systemic White Supremacy and how it affects us.

 
Dr. Robin DiAngelo is the author of What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy and has been an anti-racist educator, and has heard justifications of racism by white men and women in her workshops for over two decades. This justification, which she calls “white fragility,” is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. This video is part of the Vital Conversations 1 video series. For more information on this series, click here: http://www.gcorr.org/video/vital-conversations-racism-dr-robin-diangelo/
 
Calvin Terrell challenges all to remember their power to see themselves in others. To transcend global challenges while maintaining the Earth's environment, ...
 

Socio-Spiritual Evolution, TEDx talk by Calvin Terrell

Calvin Terrell challenges all to remember their power to see themselves in others. To transcend global challenges while maintaining the Earth’s environment, humankind must heal historical traumas around race intersecting with every human identity. In his candid presentation, Calvin will weave ancient indigenous concepts of healing with modern challenges as a call to action.

Ed Duran Talk on Historical Trauma & Forgiveness

 
Ed Duran Video
 

 

Exterminate all the Brutes

Filmmaker Raul Peck Explores Colonialism and the Origins of White Supremacy

Our Story. Our Stake.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is the largest organization explicitly organizing white communities in US history. Join us in the critical work of bringing in millions of white people to movements for social justice.

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