Excerpt from Understanding White Privilege Francis E. Kendall, Ph.D.

“We need to be clear that there is no such thing as giving up one’s privilege to be ‘outside’ the system. One is always in the system. The only question is whether one is part of the system in a way that challenges or strengthens the status quo. Privilege is not something I take and which therefore have the option of not taking. It is something that society gives me, and unless I change the institutions which give it to me, they will continue to give it, and I will continue to have it, however noble and equalitarian my Intentions.” − Harry Brod, “Work Clothes and Leisure Suits: The Class Basis and Bias of the Men’s Movement,” in Men’s Lives, ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Messner (New York: Macmillan, 1989), 280

“To continue reproducing racial inequality, the system only needs for white people to be really nice and carry on – to smile at people of color, to go to lunch with them on occasion. To be clear, being nice is generally a better policy than being mean. But niceness does not bring racism to the table and will not keep it on the table when so many of us who are white want it off. Niceness does not break with white solidarity and white silence. In fact, naming racism is often seen as not nice, triggering white fragility.” ― Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility Robin DeAngelo

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

Me And White Supremacy Layla F. Saad

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Austin Channing Brown

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise

Perspective | I’m a black man with white privilege. I see how it distorts America. Steve Majors

How to recognize your white privilege — and use it to fight inequality Peggy McIntosh

Understanding My Privilege | Sue Borrego | TEDxPasadenaWomen

Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism New York Times. What is implicit bias? NYT/POV's Saleem Reshamwala unscrews the lid on the unfair effects of our subconscious.

Talks to help you understand racism in America From passionate pleas for reform to poetic turns of phrase, these talks take an honest look at everyday realities of Black Americans and illuminate the way forward.

The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Perils and Perks of Privilege - White Arizona State University: Project Humanities

Seeing White Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story. Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions.

Understanding White Privilege to Dismantle Racist Systems Talking about race can be hard, but anti-racist activists and diversity trainers say that understanding whiteness and white privilege is critical in dismantling racist systems.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Feat. Jamila Woods - White Privilege II Seattle rapper anticipated criticism of the song, but felt it important to confront structural racism.

Excerpt from Social Justice : White Privilege : Prayer

“The very processes that confer privilege to one group and not another group are often invisible to those upon whom privilege is conferred…We always think about inequality from the perspective of the one who is hurt by the inequality, not the one who is helped…

…take a look at all the very different ways that these ascribed characteristics (those we were born with) have become so obscured that we have come to believe that the events of our lives are the result of achieved characteristics…it is difficult and often unpleasant to acknowledge that all the good things that have happened to you are not simply the result of your hard work, talent and motivation but the result of something over which you had no power. Toward a Pedagogy of the Oppressor, Michael Kimmel

“In our research we found there are many facets of white privilege including the concept of white fragility, which refers to defensive emotions and destructive behaviors in response to threats to one’s privilege.” Michael Kimmel

“When privileged people crumble under even the smallest threats to their privilege, their typical defensive reactions simply return things to the equilibrium of the status quo.”  White, Privileged, Fragile, Natalie Wigg-Stevenson

What comes to mind when I see or hear the term White Privilege? 
What are some of the privileges that white persons enjoy?

Do I see value in moving from a life of privilege to one of shared equality? How might I do that?

Excerpt from Social Justice : White Privilege : Prayer

• Be Open

• Uncover Your Own Biases 

Work through these questions from Ally Henny

Harvard Implicit Bias Test from Project Implicit
 

• Educate Children 

Teach Your Children About Racism, Or This Will Keep Happening

How to Talk Honestly With Children About Racism

Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism
 

• Have the Conversations

Want To Have Better Conversations About Racism With Your Parents? Here's How : Life Kit

10 Ways To Start a Conversation About Race

Talking About Race: 10 Ways to Have Meaningful Conversations
 

• Combat White Supremacy at work, at church, in your community, with family and friends.

Standing Indivisible Against White Supremacy

How To Talk To Your Coworkers About White Privilege

The Bias of 'Professionalism' Standards

White Fragility, White Supremacy & Implicit Bias  A “jumping-off point” for those interested in learning more about anti-racist work and supporting Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

Organizational Self-Assessment Annie E. Casey Foundation Unintended racial prejudices are deeply rooted in all U.S. institutions. Use this questionnaire to find out if they are part of your organization. The questions use a racial lens to size up staffing and operational aspects. The assessment then offers additional tools and next steps based on how the organization scores.

Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup

What we would like to do is change the world. We can to a certain extent change the world. We can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.  Ultimately there is nothing we can do but love. Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend.   – Dorothy Day

From Social Justice : White Privilege : Prayer