Required 3-page book reading link: https://ugapress.manifoldapp.org/read/liberal-white-supremacy-how-progressives-silence-racial-and-class-oppression/section/d8f905c9-03e9-480b-9cae-776182520f7b
Article is attached in PDF
You will be using materials from a book on racism, politics, and community organizations. The pages from the book and other materials you need are in the links and attached files. Write a response to the discussion prompts (3 pages).
To prepare for this essay, you should read pages 24-27 of chapter 1 and Beeman’s co-authored Harvard Business Review (other document attached) article that addresses liberal white supremacy in response to racial violence and social protests over the summer of 2020. Center your discussion on one of the prompts below:
1. Beeman lists several practices and behaviors that uphold liberal white
supremacy: Vilifying working-class people as the worst racists, white fragile
behaviors of crying and defensiveness, vilifying radicals as too divisive and
disruptive, and evading racism by pointing to other issues as more important
(See Figure 3 below). Have you seen these behaviors play out in your
organizations or community discussions? Does this liberal white defensiveness
ever reach a point of unreasonable, hostile, or aggressive racism-denial? Is your
leadership prepared for this kind of hostility and resistance? Does your
Organizations have policies or practices to help protect members involved in anti-
racist work from targeted attacks and more subtle forms of liberal white
supremacy?
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Figure 3. Practices that Uphold Liberal White Supremacy
2. Beeman argues that “Positions in diversity management…help contain radicalism
as diversity becomes something to manage. Workshops and conversations on
“race” are not really about combating racist practices that impact people of color,
but controlling radical discourse, and challenges to the institution” (p. 26). Design
a workshop or training that is more radical than liberal; one that confronts racism
and elitism and holds members accountable. What would the training or
workshop involve? How would it differ from other experiences you have had with
these kinds of workshops? Would you operate within the language of DEI or use
a different title for your workshop?