by lindaoppenheim | Sep 12, 2016 | Uncategorized, Website
Whiteness Project is an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as white, or partially white, understand and experience their race. Whiteness Project is conducting interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 2, 2016 | Podcast
National Public Radio has begun a weekly podcast about race and identity. The first installment featured Peggy MacIntosh, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Catherine Orr with a focus on how discussions about whiteness occur in the college classroom.
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 5, 2015 | Opinion
“The word ‘privilege,’ composed of the Latin words for private and law, describes a legal system in which not everyone is equally bound,” writes Eula BIss in her New York Times Magazine essay. (December 6, 2015) . She adds about herself,...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 19, 2015 | Events
In her talk “Becoming History” Mabel O. Wilson will present an overview of some of the central themes of her book Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (U. California Press 2012). Negro Building examines the history of...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 30, 2015 | Opinion
Anna Holmes draws on her experience growing up biracial in America to discuss self-identification and other people’s perceptions. For a fictionalized take on the subject, read Mat Johnson’s Loving Day. How do you identify people you see? Try PBS’...
