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More About Dear St. Louis

An honest and urgent call from white parents to regional school leaders to act for a more inclusive, equitable educational landscape for our region.

More About Whitnessing Whiteness

Witnessing Whiteness invites educators to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white educators toward ineffective teaching pedagogy and poor relationships with students and colleagues of color. Questioning the implications our history has for educational institutions, school reform efforts, and diversity initiatives, this book considers political, economic, socio-cultural, and legal histories that shaped the meanings associated with whiteness. Drawing on dialogue with well-known figures within education, race, and multicultural work, the book offers intimate, personal stories of cross-race friendships that address both how a deep understanding of whiteness supports cross-race collaboration and the long-term nature of the work of excising racism from the deep psyche. Concluding chapters offer practical information on building knowledge, skills, capacities, and communities that support anti-racism practices, a hopeful look at our collective future, and a discussion of how to create a culture of witnessing educators who support allies for social and racial justice.

More About Crossroads

The Mission of Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training is to dismantle systemic racism and build antiracist multicultural diversity within institutions and communities implemented primarily by training institutional transformation teams and guided by the following principles:

• The work of Crossroads is based upon a systemic analysis of racism and its individual, institutional and cultural manifestations;
• Crossroads seeks to be accountable in its work to those who share a common analysis of racism, and especially to communities of color;
• Crossroads understands its antiracism work to be part of a national and global movement for racial justice and social equality;
• Crossroads recognizes that resistance to racism also requires resistance to all other forms of social inequality and oppression.