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frandroid ([personal profile] frandroid) wrote2007-01-05 04:20 pm

crossposted from lj-yorku

Confronting White Privilege

A public lecture by Dr. Robert Jensen, University of Texas
Author of Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2005

Mon. Jan. 8, 4:30 pm, 109 Accolade West

Robert Jensen is an amazing writer on the aforementioned issues, helping white people address their own internal racism in innovative ways. I have personally gained a lot from reading some of his columns, which are reprinted in many newspapers. The two that probably relate the most to this talk are the following:
White Privilege shapes the U.S. [applies to Canada]
More thoughts on why system of white privilege is wrong