Greenfield Community College

Electronic Databases
(these databases are available on-campus for patrons in the GCC Library and
off-campus for individuals affiliated with GCC)

The term "white privilege" is not yet being used as a subject heading, but the phrase is commonly being used in language.  Therefore, it can be searched as a keyword phrase in electronic databases (or indexes) of periodical literature.  Other suggested keyword terms and phrases are:  whiteness, whites, black disadvantage. 

Another strategy would be to use the keyword search <white* and privilege*>, truncating the words to include all endings of those words.  Subject headings found in these articles that are also good search terms for similar information are: racism, white women (or men), race relations, race discrimination, whites in popular culture, affirmative action, discrimination in education.

The following GCC databases would be appropriate for locating literature on this topic.  Try searching by author for writers on this topic such as Peggy McIntosh, Robert Jensen, Paula Rothenberg, Tim Wise, and others mentioned in the book lists linked to this page:

Within the EBSCOhost Search Service:
Academic Search Premier and Elite, MasterFile, Newspaper Source, ERIC and Professional Development Collection (education), PsycINFO, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, and Business Source Premier.

Within the InfoTrac Search Service:
Expanded Academic, General Reference Center, Professional Collection, General BusinessFile

Lexis-Nexis Academic (try the News and Business sections) 

Internet Sites
(Be sure to evaluate everything that you find on the Internet for authorship and reliability of content)

Whiteness and/or White Privilege

• Color Blinded by Whiteness:  http://academic.udayton.edu/race/04needs/colorbli.htm

• SCRAP (Students Challenging Racism and White Privilege):  http://canopyweb.com/racism/

• Whiteness Studies:  A look at white privilege and whiteness studies and how they pertain to race relations (includes links for whiteness studies courses):  http://racerelations.about.com/library/weekly/blwhiteprivilege.htm

• Whiteness Studies:  Deconstructing (the) Race:  http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/index.html

• Center for the Study of White American Culture:  a Multiracial Organization (see their White Studies Library and Links):  http://euroamerican.org/library.asp

• White Privilege:  an Anti-racist Resource:  http://www.whiteprivilege.com/

• Anti-Racist Alliance:  http://www.antiracistalliance.com/

• Race Consciousness and Race Blindness:  http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/pages/race.html

• Deconstructing Whiteness:  A Select Bibliography:  http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/Whitenessbib.html

• ZNet Search (try searching the phrase "white privilege" or "racism"--try the author search for Tim Wise, Robert Jensen, etc):  http://www.zmag.org/search/

• Anti-Racism.net (see their directory of anti-racist organizations):  http://www.antiracismnet.org/main.html

Selected Essays & Articles

• Who Invented White People (by Gregory Jay)?:  http://www.uwm.edu/%7Egjay/Whiteness/Whitenesstalk.html

• Whites swim in racial preference (by Tim Wise):  http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15209

• Other articles by Tim Wise:  http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=96

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (by Peggy McIntosh):  http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu?~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html

• Articles and essays on race, racism, and white privilege (by Robert Jensen):  http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/racearticles.htm

• Diversity vs. White Privilege (by Christine Sleeter):  http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/15_02/Int152.shtml

• What Should White People Do? (by Linda Martin Alcoff):  http://iupjournals.org/hypatia/hyp13-3.html

• The Preference of White Privilege (by Kimberle W. Crenshaw): http://aapf.org/pages/preference.html

• A Long History of Affirmative Action--for Whites:  http://www.newsreel.org/guides/race/whiteadv.htm

• White Identity and Race Relations in the 1990's (by Ashley W. Doane, Jr.):  http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/DOANE/Whiteidentity.htm

• Sisseton, South Dakota: Dynamics of Whiteness in a Dakota Indian/White Community (senior thesis and website by Joanna Calhoun Horton): http://www.whiteculturestudy.us/

The following links will work on campus computers only because these articles are available in GCC Library subscription databases:

• Examining Unearned Privilege (by Peggy McIntosh)

• Black Deprivation--White Privilege:  the Assault on Affirmative Action (by Robert Staples)

• A Paler Shade of White (by Eric Arnesen)

• Racism and reparations: the time has come for whites to acknowledge the legacy of nearly 250 years of slavery and almost 100 years of legalized segregation (by Manning Marable)

• White spaces: if we would build a beloved community across racial lines, we must confront the ways that racism shapes and wounds not only persons of color, but also those who are white (by Tobin Miller Shearer

Resources for Faculty

• Teaching about Whiteness (by Professor Gregory Jay, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, gjay@uwm.edu):  http://www.uwm.edu/%7Egjay/Whiteness/Teachwhiteness.html

• Deconstructing Whiteness (by Professor Gregory Jay):  http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/syllabusf01.htm

• The Social Construction of Whiteness and Women (by Professor Arlene Avakian, UMASS, Amherst, avakian@wost.umass.edu):  http://www.umass.edu/wost/syllabi/spring03/wost397l.htm

• Whiteness and Racial Difference (by Professor Peter Schmidt, Swarthmore, pschmid1@swarthmore.edu):  http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/engl85/engl85.html

• Critical Perspectives on Whiteness (by Professor Jennifer Roth-Gordon, Brown U., Jennifer_Roth_Gordon@brown.edu):  http://www.brown.edu/Courses/ET0152/

• Psychology of Oppression (by Professor Anne Wiley, Greenfield Community College, MA, wiley@gcc.mass.edu):  http://www.gcc.mass.edu/academics/wst/courses.html#psy259

• Race in America (by Professor Allan Johnson, U. of Hartford):  http://admission.hartford.edu/legalstudies/Curriculum/courses/syllabi/SCH310-200340.pdf

• Race and Ethnic Relations (by Professor Woody Doane, U. of Hartford, doane@mail.hartford.edu):  http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/DOANE/racemenu.htm

Other related sources:

• ZNet Race Watch (A Community of People Committed to Social Change) :  http://www.zmag.org/racewatch/racewatch.htm

• Race:  the Power of an Illusion (online companion to a documentary about race in society, science, and history--includes a section for teachers, background readings, a discussion guide in pdf format, and several hundred resources related to race):  http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm

• We Need Affirmative Action (from the Ford Foundation):  http://www.fordfound.org/news/view_reflection_detail.cfm?reflection_index=23