White Fragility Chapter 2 Discussion by A.Cook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz Black Educator Initiative - Critical Reading Group en-us 2020-10-28 23:11:58 UTC 2022-03-21 16:52:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter 2 Overview SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871628386 Chapter 2 outlines key information about racism and white supremacy in the United States. The author
emphasizes that race is socially constructed; however, the belief that race and differences associated with
it are biological is deep-seated. Race is an evolving social idea that was created to legitimize racial inequality and protect white advantage. Historically and contemporarily, being perceived as white carries
legal, political, economic, and social rights and privileges that are denied to others. White supremacy is
the overarching political, economic, and social system of domination that describes the culture we live
in and that positions whiteness as ideal. Naming white supremacy makes the system visible and shifts
the locus of change onto white people, where it belongs. Challenging complicity with and investment in
racism is life-long work for white people.]]> 2020-10-28 23:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871628386 Key Concepts SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871629021 Prejudice
• Discrimination
• Racism
• Ideology
• White privilege
• Whiteness
• White supremacy]]> 2020-10-28 23:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871629021 Discussion Question #8 SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871629656 How can the learning from this chapter be converted into an action item for your colleagues or
students?]]> 2020-10-28 23:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871629656 Discussion Question #7 SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871630272 Describe some of the broader implications of our complicity and investment in racism. ]]> 2020-10-28 23:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871630272 Discussion Question #6 SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871630692 Who or what benefits from the biological myths associated with race? How are biological racist
myths perpetuated in school? ]]> 2020-10-28 23:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871630692 Discussion Question #5 SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871631230 How does your school or classroom reinforce a racist ideology? How do you know?]]> 2020-10-28 23:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871631230 Discussion Question #4 SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871631727 Practice explaining the differences between racism, prejudice, and discrimination in your own
terms. Why is it important for students of all races to understand these concepts and the differences between them? What are historical or current examples of racism, prejudice, and discrimination that students can understand?]]> 2020-10-28 23:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871631727 Discussion Question #3 SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871632313 The author asks several questions about racial socialization and schooling on p. 35, including
“Why is it important to reflect on our teachers in our effort to uncover our racial socialization
and the messages we receive from schools?” Answer that question and consider answering a few
other questions from p. 35. ]]> 2020-10-28 23:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871632313 Discussion Question #2 SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871632778 Review the racial breakdown of people who control our national institutions on p. 31. What specific conclusions can be drawn from this list? ]]> 2020-10-28 23:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871632778 Discussion Question #1 SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871633479 How has race impacted your life? If you are struggling to answer the question, why?]]> 2020-10-28 23:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/871633479 Sorry, but the Irish were always White (and the Jews, Italians, and so on) SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914522029 Washington Post]]> 2020-11-11 22:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914522029 Session 2 Powerpoint SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914528754 2020-11-11 22:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914528754 "Race is the child of racism, not the father." SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914582135 Ta-Nehisi Coates quoted pg. 16]]> 2020-11-11 23:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914582135 "The beneficiaries of slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration have produced racist ideas of Black people being best suited for or deserving of the confines of slavery, segregation, or the jail cell. Consumers of these racist ideas have been led to believe that there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people." SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914583916 Ibram Kendi quoted pg 17]]> 2020-11-11 23:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914583916 "Racism is a structure, not an event." SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914595165 Dr. J.Kehaulani Kauanui quoted pg. 20]]> 2020-11-11 23:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914595165 Birdcage metaphor - if you stand too close to the cage you don't see the other bars. SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914600910 Quoted on page 23]]> 2020-11-11 23:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914600910 "By according whiteness an actual legal status, an aspect of identity was converted into an external object of property, moving whiteness from privileged identity to a vested interest. The law's construction of whiteness defined and affirmed critical aspects of identity (who is white); of privilege (what benefits accrue to that status); and, of property (what legal entitlements arise from that status). Whiteness at various times signifies and is deployed as identity, status, and property, sometimes singularly, sometimes in tandem." SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914606673 quote on pp 24-25]]> 2020-11-11 23:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914606673 In 1946, a French reporter asked Richard Wright his thoughts on the "Negro problem" in the United States. Wright replied, "There isn't any Negro problem; there is only a white problem." SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914614023 Quoted on pg 25]]> 2020-11-11 23:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914614023 Ruth Frankenberg describes whiteness as multidimensional - a location of structural advantage; a standpoint from which white people look at ourselves, at others, and at society; and a set of cultural practices that are not named or acknowledged SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914618815 To say that whiteness is a structural advantage is to recognize that to be white is to be in a privileged position within society and its institutions -- to be seen as an insider and to be granted the benefits of belonging.  This position automatically bestows unearned advantages.  
To say that whiteness is a standpoint is to say that a significant aspect of white identity is to see oneself as an individual, outside, or innocent of race -- "just human."  This standpoint views white people and their interests as central to, and representative of, humanity.
To say that whiteness includes a set of cultural practices that are not recognized by white people is to understand racism as a network of norms and actions that consistently create advantages for whites and disadvantages for people of color.
pp 27-28]]> 2020-11-11 23:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914618815 What as usually been taken...as the racist 'exception' has really been the rule; what has been taken as the 'rule'...[racial equality] has really been the exception." White supremacy is "the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today." SJCCook https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914629503 Quoted on page 29 from his book The Racial Contract]]> 2020-11-12 00:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/SJCCook/h55w5r32js1wtnfz/wish/914629503