###### [[podcast_NPR One_Can We Talk About Whiteness NPR One]] **Covers**:: [[white supremacy]], [[social justice]], [[activism]] **Source**:: [Can We Talk About Whiteness? : NPR One](https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=476876081:480084184) **Last Edited**:: *7:35 AM - July 08, 2022* Summarized and expanded upon in [[White Privilege write-up]] #TO/TEND/CREATE notes - Talking about whiteness as a demographic and white privilege. - Peggys story - White [[women]] are oppressive to work with. - Expecting to be thanked for not being racist. - Led to searching for things privilege she has - College campuses are central for lots of activism about race - Whiteness is not just an identity, it is embedded institutions and practices (college) - Notion that whiteness is the invisible identity. “Other people have race” - Whiteness is a racial project. ([[Race is a social construct]]) Representation that distributes resources - [[Women]] default to whiteness => white [[women]]’s experience === [[women]]’s experience - People want a racial alibi = to become the good white person or separate themselves from the institution of whiteness (and [[white supremacy]]) - Progressive or liberal white people view whiteness as a burden but that is not true of all white people - [[How to address whiteness]] - Direct approach - [[White supremacy]] and forcing to acknowledge white privilege - often used by activists - Indirect approach - Ground teaching in actual experience of white people = why do people feel like they don't have white privilege? -> the problems they face aren't related to their race or other races. - Different than losing privilege feeling like oppression ([[To those with privilege, losing it feels like oppression]]) - White teachers can be seen as benevolent role-model while BIPOC teachers are seen as bitter - Is there a way to get rid of the burden of whiteness? -> No - teaching intellectual habits - acknowledging the situations of your life - set of questions that work in every situation - who are you in the room - how did you get there - Difference between addressing race (and [[white supremacy]]) and addressing societal ills ([[prison-industrial complex]]) - White people are scared to engage in race or if they aren't they do it through political jargon - White people have often never had to address their race - ?==Is it more comfortable talking about race in homogeneous company or mixed company==?