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| The Color of Fear Homepage: The Diversity Resources Network | We are members of a long-standing diversity and violence
prevention
trainer's
and practitioners community. We dedicate this site to providing free access to the most useful teaching tools, tips, exercises and theoretical essays available anywhere on the World Wide Web! We are also developing a database of cool diversity links that will feature the best of the web. (from the website) |
Partners include:
MARGO ADAIR, author of Working Inside Out, founder/director of TOOLS FOR CHANGE. PAUL KIVEL, violence prevention educator, author of Boys Will be Men, Men's Work, and co-author of young women's lives. VICTOR LEWIS, founder and Director of the CENTER for DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP, and a principal voice in The Color of Fear, one of the most potent films on race relations in decades. HUGH VASQUEZ, Co-founder/Executive Director of the TODOS Institute, one of the nation's leading diversity and alliance building training centers. |
| White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy Mc Intosh | The original essay | Peggy McIntosh is associate director of the Wellesley College
Center for Research on Women. This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies (1988), by Peggy McIntosh; available for $4.00 from the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley MA 02181.The working paper contains a longer list of privileges. This excerpted essay is reprinted from the Winter 1990 issue of Independent School. |
| The Newer White Consciousness | TCNJ's Dr. Michael Robertson introduces the concept of white
privilege
in this 1997 unbound
article. "Suddenly white Americans are
conscious of their
whiteness.
And for most whites, like my student, that whiteness is tied to a
sense of victimization...." |
The article includes links to a several related sites, including Peggy McIntosh's list of the daily effects of white privilege. However, the Peggy McIntosh listing above is more comprehensive. |
| PBS Skin Deep Home Page | SKIN DEEP is a tale of the complexities of race relations in America today, as experienced by a diverse but strikingly candid group of college students. Academy-Award nominated producer Frances Reid chronicles these young adults' attitudes and feelings about race through interviews, scenes from campus and family life, and in a weekend retreat of interracial dialogue. | Although the site is dated, it features a discussion guide, a quiz, a message board and many useful links. |
| Mother Jones Interview with Lee Mun Wah | A 1995 interview with the maker of "The Color of Fear" | |
| Rutgers Students Reactions to "The Color of Fear" | "This movie has touched my inner most feelings it even made
me wonder, "Am I a racist?..." |
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| Race in Science | Documents, syllabi, bibliographies and links on a range of topics, including: eugenics, the human genome diversity project, cultural aspects of medical diagnoses, treatment and research, etc. | Compiled and edited by faculty and staff at MIT. |
| Significant Differences:The construction of knowledge, objectivity and dominance | Donna M. Hughes Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 396-406, 1995. |
Argues that, "The scientific method is a tool for the
construction and justification of dominance and exploitation in the world. It also enables the creation of replicable information and explanations of the natural and social world. Recognizing these dual functions is crucial to understanding how the scientific method is used to provide increasingly broad and in-depth understandings of the world and to explain and create stratifications within the world...." |
| Don't Believe the Hype Quiz | This quiz is based on information published in Farai Chideya's
stereotype-shattering
1995 book, Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting
Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans (Plume
Penguin), which is now
in
its eighth printing. Using statistics, she systematically undercuts
the
argument that African-Americans are at the root of problems like
crime,
welfare and drugs.
In 1999, William Morrow published her second book, The Color of Our Future. From an Indian reservation to South Central L.A., the 99% white heartland to multi-racial Southern California, Chideya interviews and analyzes the lives of today's diverse teens and twenty-somethings. Excerpts from both books are available on the site. |
Farai Chideya is a journalist and author. In 1997,
Newsweek
named
her to its Century Club" of 100 people to watch. Chideya is the
anchor of "Pure Oxygen," a prime time show on
Oxygen,
a new women's network started by Oprah Winfrey, Gerry Laybourne and
Marcy
Carsey. From 1997-1999, Chideya was an ABC News correspondent
covering
a range of issues from youth to race to politics. In 1996 Chideya
spent
the Presidential election season as a CNN Political Analyst and was
named
to the New York Daily News' "Dream Team" of political reporters and
commentators.
(all information adapted from Chideya's website.) |
| Implicit Association Test | It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds',
and
it is suspected
that people don't always 'know
their minds'. Understanding such
divergences
is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a new
method that
demonstrates
public-private and conscious-unconscious divergences much more
convincingly
than
has been possible with previous methods. It also displays
the method in
a do-it-yourself
demonstration form. This new method is called the Implicit
Association
Test, or IAT for
short. |
This is a joint venture between scientists at the University of
Washington
and Yale University. The site allows participants to measure their
unconscious
attitudes with regard to race, gender, age and presidential
politics. Extensive
information is provided with regard to the scientific methods and
research
on which the tests are based.
(from the IAT website) |
| About.com Directory of Race Relations Discussion Groups | Extensive Links on history, immigration, current events, race relations in other countries, multiculturalism, etc. | Guide: Kimberly Hohman |
| The National Hate Test Special | "Welcome to The National Hate Test Special. Here you will find 16 possible scenarios that will ask you to examine your own prejudices and think about your personal values concerning topics related to race, religion, disabilities and sexual orientation." (from the website) | This site isn't as challenging or intellectually rigorous as some of the others. However, there is real audio recording of the special which has people of different backgrounds discussing the questions on the test, as well as survey results. |
| Three decades after King, a Report Card | "Today, after considerable strides in meeting that challenge, psychologists have discovered that the study of prejudice, rather than getting easier, has become more complex. Compared with the open bigotry that still existed in the late 1960s, the white resistance that King mentioned now operates in subtler, even unintentional ways, scientists say. " (website) | From the American Psychological Association newsletter on the web. |
| Densho: The Japanese-American Legacy Project | The mission of the Densho Project is to document the Japanese-American experience using state-of-the-art technology and to create educational resources as a way to expand awareness of our country's diverse history. |
The Densho Project Archive brings history into the next century by
capturing the sights, sounds, and stories of one community in a fully searchable digital archive. This "library in a computer" preserves the history of Japanese Americans in two collections: (1)Visual Histories-digitally videotaped interviews, and (2)Photographs and Documents-images of the past, rare documents, and other primary source materials. |
| African Native Americans: We are Still Here | Photo exhibit from the Newman Library at Baruch | An aspect of multiracial identity that is not often considered. |