An essential resource for anyone who wants to enter the next stage of their antiracist journey—recognizing, analyzing, and confronting the perpetuation of racism in our visual world.
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Introduction
1. Beginning to Identify the White Lens
2. Through the Looking Glass: Reality, Culture, and the White Lens
3. Removing Our Rose-Tinted Glasses: Representation and Black Women’s Bodies
4. On a Pedestal: Masculinity, Race, and Threat
5. Your White Savior Self(ie): Social Media, Branding, and Humanitarianism
6. Continuing the Work
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Glossary
Appendix B. For Reading Groups
Appendix C. Additional Resources
Endnotes
How Should You Use This Book?
Typically, no one needs instructions on what to do with a book—pick it up and read it! But because this book asks you to do more than a typical book, below are some suggestions. If you are reading it as part of a group, also see appendix B, “For Reading Groups.”
Keep an open mind and reflect on yourself, not others. You can only control your own thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Be wary of white guilt. Accept that we’re constantly immersed in a racist, white supremacist culture, recognize that we have made and will continue to make mistakes, and push to educate yourself further. Do not ask people of color to absolve you of your past.
Continue your education rather than bragging about it or asking for affirmation. People of color most likely don’t want to be assaulted by your newfound knowledge of how white supremacy shapes literally everything in our culture.
Get a journal or dedicate a spot on your computer or phone for reflection. Use the questions within or at the end of each chapter to contemplate white ways of seeing in your everyday life.
Realize you are doing this for a purpose: to work toward a more just world. A world with fewer images that add to or reinforce the racial trauma experienced by people of color. A world where white people’s biases are not reinforced but are questioned and challenged. Systemic racism requires systemic change; the changes you undergo as an individual do not achieve this, but they may motivate you to work toward it.
Understand that this is a lifelong process. Your work is never done. Antiracism is a journey, not a destination.
Familiarize yourself with the terms listed in appendix A, the glossary, and explore appendix C, “Additional Resources,” to further your education.
Introduction
1. Beginning to Identify the White Lens
2. Through the Looking Glass: Reality, Culture, and the White Lens
3. Removing Our Rose-Tinted Glasses: Representation and Black Women’s Bodies
4. On a Pedestal: Masculinity, Race, and Threat
5. Your White Savior Self(ie): Social Media, Branding, and Humanitarianism
6. Continuing the Work
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Glossary
Appendix B. For Reading Groups
Appendix C. Additional Resources
Endnotes
How Should You Use This Book?
Typically, no one needs instructions on what to do with a book—pick it up and read it! But because this book asks you to do more than a typical book, below are some suggestions. If you are reading it as part of a group, also see appendix B, “For Reading Groups.”
Keep an open mind and reflect on yourself, not others. You can only control your own thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Be wary of white guilt. Accept that we’re constantly immersed in a racist, white supremacist culture, recognize that we have made and will continue to make mistakes, and push to educate yourself further. Do not ask people of color to absolve you of your past.
Continue your education rather than bragging about it or asking for affirmation. People of color most likely don’t want to be assaulted by your newfound knowledge of how white supremacy shapes literally everything in our culture.
Get a journal or dedicate a spot on your computer or phone for reflection. Use the questions within or at the end of each chapter to contemplate white ways of seeing in your everyday life.
Realize you are doing this for a purpose: to work toward a more just world. A world with fewer images that add to or reinforce the racial trauma experienced by people of color. A world where white people’s biases are not reinforced but are questioned and challenged. Systemic racism requires systemic change; the changes you undergo as an individual do not achieve this, but they may motivate you to work toward it.
Understand that this is a lifelong process. Your work is never done. Antiracism is a journey, not a destination.
Familiarize yourself with the terms listed in appendix A, the glossary, and explore appendix C, “Additional Resources,” to further your education.
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