white privilege

Film: Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible

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 Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible is a documentary that seeks to expose and understand the perspectives that perpetuate white privilege and racism in modern society. The film features the experiences of white women and men who have worked to gain insight into what it means to challenge notions of racism and white supremacy in the United States. Runtime: 50 minutes.

View a vieo clip, learn more about the film, download the companion study/conversation guide, and order the DVD on the World-Trust website.

http://www.world-trust.org/videos/visible.html

Ariel Luckey: Education, Art & Activism Trainer

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 Ariel Luckey is a 26 year old Oakland native whose community and performance work dances in the crossroads of education, art and activism. He attended his first workshop at the age of 2 with his father, Paul Kivel, a writer and political educator, and has been active in the community ever since. Ariel has developed a powerful approach to arts activism through his training with Wavy Gravy and Patch Adams at Camp Winnarainbow, June Jordan at UC Berkeley's Poetry for the People and Augusto Boal at Theatre of the Oppressed workshops. Ariel's lyrical language and political vision have inspired and transformed audiences from the streets of Seattle's WTO demonstration to Cafe Cantante in Havana, Cuba to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York.

In the Bay Area, Ariel has performed at the Intersection for the Arts, La Pena Cultural Center, Project Theatre Artaud, Ashkenaz, SomArts, the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, UC Berkeley, St. Mary's College, the Writers Corp and various local high schools and community centers. His work includes developing curriculum and facilitating workshops with the Todos Institute, GreenAction for Health and Environmental Justice, the Bioneers Conference, Y-Step, Jewish Youth for Community Action and the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts. He loves learning the journey of fatherhood with his new baby.

Topics covered

  • Poetry for People Power: The Pen, The Mic and The Movement
  • Acting Out Change: Theatre of the Oppressed for Collective Liberation
  • ToxiCity: Art and Organizing for Environmental Justice (Part One)
  • New World Water: Art and Organizing for Environmental Justice (Part Two)
  • Ancestry in Progress: Connecting Our Family Histories to Our Global Future
  • Free Land: Unearthing the Legacy of Manifest Destiny and White Privilege thru Hip Hop Theatre

http://www.arielluckey.com/

Building Alliances (RAN)

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A powerful 6-page guide for organizers to build alliances and overcome divisions caused by institutional oppression and fear. Includes great working definitions for terms related to oppression.

Alliances are crucial to creating any kind of sustainable change. History has shown that different groups have been played against each other by those in power to keep us separated and unable to threaten the status quo.


A little story about our divisions
When the United States was beginning to form, there was a hierarchy of oppression that kept everyone subservient to someone above them. The King of England demanded goods from the Jamestown white elite who exploited and controlled the white frontiersman who, in order to appease the elite with money and land, slaughtered Indigenous people and brutalized African slaves. Many whites joined Indigenous and African rebellions. The white elite worked to stop this because they knew such an alliance would become too powerful and would succeed at overthrowing the control that the elite and the King had. So in order to separate the whites from everyone else, they started giving more privileges (land and better treatment) to the white servants. This worked. The working class whites effectively abandoned the movements for change and to this day these groups have problems working together. (Zinn, 1980).

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

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This book by Paul Kivel focuses on understanding whiteness, racism, privilege, and how white people can work for racial justice. It provides several thought exercises that help the reader put racism in context and offers several tools and tips for countering and uprooting prejudice and oppression.

http://www.paulkivel.com/wst_page5.html

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