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We can't teach what we don't know

white teachers, multiracial schools
1999
Explores the role of white teachers in multicultural education, discussing the need for white educators in the U.S. and other nations of the West to understand the dynamics of past and present racial dominance in order to effect personal and social transformation.

The color of water

a black man's tribute to his white mother
2008
James McBride chronicles his twelve-year journey to learn about his mother's past, describing her unhappy childhood, marriage, refusal to admit she was white, and creation of an all-black church in Harlem, and shares details of his own life and the challenges he faced coping with his family's secrets.

White men on race

power, privilege, and the shaping of cultural consciousness
2003
Examines racial attitudes based on information which has been provided by over 100 upper-income white men who express their views on blacks today, immigration, crime, and discriminatory practices.

Everything but the burden

what white people are taking from Black culture
2003
Provides a collection of essays that examines how White American culture consistently and repeatedly takes aspects of African American culture for definition of their own.

Whispers on the color line

rumor and race in America
2001

Can we talk about race?

and other conversations in an era of school resegregation
2007

Whites

stories
1986
Six stories set in the African republic of Botswana reveal the deep cultural chasm between whites and blacks which ultimately leads to disaster.

"White Power, White Pride!"

The White separatist movement in the United States
1997
Chronicles the history, ideology, and strategies of the white separatist movement.

True fires

2004
The Dare family heads to Florida to seek their fortune in oranges after the death of their mother, but when the local sheriff tries to ban them from the all-white school, it takes a court case that will divide the town to determine their fate.

The wrong side of Murder Creek

a White Southerner in the freedom movement
2008
Former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Bob Zellner reflects on his life, focusing on his years as a civil rights activist from 1960 to 1967 and the many obstacles he faced and people he met while fighting for equality.

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