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StAIGS Feminist Reading Group; Topic: Whiteness
Friday November 22, 2019 @ 2:00 pm
Fri 22 Nov from 2pm – 3pm in OUB Forrest Room: Topic: Whiteness.
The topic is Whiteness, and the suggested readings are:
- Ruth Frankenberg, ‘”White Women, Racism and Anti-Racism”: A Women’s Studies Course Exploring Racism and Privilege’,Women’s Studies Quarterly Vol 18, No 1/2 (1990): https://www.jstor.org/stable/40004034?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=au%3A&searchText=%22Ruth+Frankenberg%22&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fsi%3D1%26amp%3BQuery%3Dau%253A%2522Ruth%2BFrankenberg%2522%26amp%3Brefreqid%3Dsearch%253A6213e9bd74c227ab39f67b5df46fde8c&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-4802%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A86564157b1bec1bee4080461d7b34af9&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
- Audre Lorde, ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’, 1979.
- Hazel Carby, “White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood.” The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Seventies Britain. London: Hutchinson, 1982.
Contact Camilla (cmr30@) for readings if you cannot access via JSTOR or similar.
Further reading if you want:
- Linda Martin Alcoff, ‘”What should white people do?'”, Hypatia Vol 13, No 3 (1998): https://www.jstor.org/stable/3810696?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=what&searchText=should&searchText=white&searchText=people&searchText=do&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dwhat%2Bshould%2Bwhite%2Bpeople%2Bdo&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-4802%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A393b7f25e9ce27a0e901360300a01f48&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents
- Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea. Documentary by Chelsea Handler available by Netflix (paywall).