Unpacking Whiteness Dialogue Group

 

Individuals committed to exploring their own racial biases are invited to participate in an Unpacking Whiteness Dialogue Group. The purpose of the group is to engage in supportive, structured dialogues with others to explore whiteness in contemporary society, especially to better understand the legacy and impact of white supremacy, white privilege, explicit and implicit bias, systemic racism, and microaggressions.

This format is designed to provide a fruitful opportunity to engage in meaningful, difficult and engaging conversations about personal, institutional and societal responsibility in recognizing white privilege and systemic racism.

Over the course of this five-week workshop, you will better understand yourself, your communities, and be prepared to work toward a diverse and equitable culture with your friends, family, Lowell and beyond.

Registration is capped at 10 and depending on interest, other groups may be formed. You will be expected to attend all five sessions.

To sign up, fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/x5b35Qy3SeSkdCMY8

Questions? Please email marissa@solidaritylowell.com.

 

Ongoing Group

After attending the Unpacking Whiteness Dialogue Group, attendees are invited to join the ongoing group. This group meets monthly, and alternates between discussing a book or watching a film. If you’re curious what we’ve read and watched in the past, see the lists below!

 

Books

White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams
How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
An Indigenous Peoples Guide to the History of North America by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
One Goal by Amy Bass
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
The Big Move: Immigrant Voices from a Mill City by Christoph Strobel and Robert Forrant
Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith
The 2nd: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
Racism Without Racists 2021 (6th Edition) by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Prose to the People by Katie Mitchell

Many of these are available, or can be ordered from, Lala Books: https://lalabookstore.com/

 

Films

The 13th
When They See Us
When They See Us Now
Do The Right Thing
Selma
Reconstruction
One Night in Miami
Judas and the Black Messiah
Harriet
The Donut King
American Experience: The Chinese Exclusion Act
Smoke Signals
NPR interview with Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste
My Name is Pauli Murray
Unstoppable
The Contradiction
James Hemings: Ghost in America’s Kitchen
1619 Project S1:E6
Reel Injun
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America