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Whooooaaaa there - who said diversity education was about try to teach
white students to feel shame about the colour of their skin?
Methinks the shame is a consequence of learning about white privilege,
and because white privilege is most insidiously about denying white privilege,
the shame triggers hostility, a "how-dare-you" kind of defence.
it's not about how this-or-that person is white and so therefore
responsible for racism; but about how the dominant culture organizes its
insitutions and social structures to privilege the white folks - and the
recognition of that,
which, unfortunately, in individualistic idelogies such as those espoused
by white-conservative America, tends to get interpreted as
"you"/"me"/"her"/"him"...
Anger is a good place to start asking the hard questions. Why does racism
make white people so angry when they, effectively, benefit from it?
diane
"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right"
(Ani Difranco)
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diane celia hodges
faculty of graduate studies
(604) 253-4807 centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
university of british columbia,
vancouver, british
columbia, canada V6T 1Z4
dchodges who-is-at interchg.ubc.ca