There is an old handbook a 1978 paperback, now
expensive and a collector’s item, “White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism
Training”, by Judith H. Katz, from the University of Oklahoma Press. The existence of the book reminds us that the theory of anti-racism (and even critical race theory) have been around before, and I recall them occasionally from the early 1970s. As an author myself, I have a bit or revulsion over the idea of spoonfeeding people in handbooks.
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American
History and Culture admitted that it had used a “whiteness” chart that seems to
emphasize individualism (deferred gratification, logical thinking, etc) but as
an example of “ideology”, according to a Washington Post article by Peggy McGlone
July 17. Newsweek had a similar story by Marina Watts.
The Smithsonian periodical has several articles with a
flavor of anti-racism, such as “How to Talk about Race, Racism and Racial
Identity”, by Allison Keyes.
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