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White Anti-racist Community Action Network


November 15, 2006

 

WACAN Unveils History Initiative

John Brown, and I dunno.
Quick, name three white anti-racists. History is important, and white anti-racist history is important to white anti-racists. But they don't teach it in schools. So we have to do it ourselves.
We've launched our Hall of Remembrance and Commemoration
Celebrate the lives of white anti-racists and allies. You make the nominations, and you vote on who will be inducted.
Add items to "This Month in History"
Our popular calendar of historical events on our main page is now interactive. You can add events.
Do you have something to say about white anti-racist history?
Join the discussion in our newest forum.

Check it all out, on the WACAN Main Page


 

*** IN THE LIBRARY ***

How soon we forget
• "The New White Person" asks if whiteness can stand for anything positive.
• "The New White Person" understands psychic wholeness for Whites...is critically urgent.
• "The New White Person" seeks integrity for ourselves and justice for everyone.
• "The New White Person" needs support groups.

Cutting edge in 2006? Maybe. Only it was written over 30 years ago.

View the latest addition to our library.


 

*** NEWS ITEMS ***

Skinhead violence surging, watchdog group says
The Southern Poverty Law Center notes a disturbing trend. See WACANnews story

Whites more likely to get CPR help: study
Racial disparities in health care are being reported time after time in recent months. Here's another example. See WACANnews story

CAMPUS WATCH
Julian Bond at Cornell - another fraternity and racist remarks - rude black students - lip service for white privilege - David Roediger at U. Toledo. See WACANnews story



 

*** OPINION & ANALYSIS ***

Notes on Racist Jokes
A careful look at racist humor by the curator of the Jim Crow Museum. See WACANnews story

Does white privilege exist in America?
Of course it does, and ABC says so in this brief 20/20 report. See WACANnews story

Walking the race line
Race is always present in national elections in the US. What's the latest version of pandering to white folks? See WACANnews story



 

*** EVENTS ***

How to submit an event
CLICK November 16, 2006 Boston, MA "Re-Discovering Garrison" Publicity event The Boston African American National Historic Site & The Museum of African American History
CLICK Until December 1, 2006 Urbana-Champaign, IL "Papers and panel proposals on the critical study of whiteness" Call for papers The Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2-5, 2007
CLICK December 4-7, 2006 Oakland, CA "Beyond Good Intentions: An Anti-Racism Workshop for White Allies in Faith-based Organizations" Workshop The Leaven Center
CLICK December 11-13, 2006 Sydney, Australia "The Borderpolitics of Whiteness" Conference Macquarie University - Sydney, Dept. of Critical and Cultural Studies & the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association
CLICK Until December 31, 2006 Roselle, NJ "Struggling for Direction: White Anti-racist Practice and Accountability" Call for chapter proposals Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc.
CLICK April 18-21, 2007 Colorado Springs, CO "WPC8; The Matirx: Examining Intersections, Making Connections & Building Allies" Conference The White Privilege Conference & The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs