Witnessing Whiteness, Shelly Tochluk
Witnessing Whiteness, Shelly Tochluk
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Witnessing Whiteness
The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It Second Edition

Author: Shelly Tochluk

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 15 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/13/2018

Synopsis

Witnessing Whiteness invites listeners 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 people toward poor relationships with people of color. Questioning the implications our history has for personal lives and social institutions, the 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 witnesses who support allies for social and racial justice.

About Shelly Tochluk

An educator, with a background in psychology, Shelly Tochluk spent ten years as a researcher, counselor, and teacher in California's public schools. Tochluk now trains educators to work with the diverse Los Angeles school population as a Professor of Education at Mount St. Mary's College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe on January 31, 2015

I undertook to read this book with a church school class. I felt more resistance earlier on...like in Part 1, where chapters 1-2-3 are entitled: Naming the Problem, Facing the Dis-ease, and Uncovering a Hidden History. I recognize that I have been among the many who haven't experienced much or been......more

Goodreads review by Mary on October 19, 2020

This is a helpful book to read, but at the same time, since it was written in 2007, it doesn't have any of the urgency that the present-day race crisis in our country (and in our world) calls for. The things that I would fault this book for--being too gentle, being too beginner--are things that the......more

Goodreads review by Em on March 11, 2021

Meh. I read this one because my partner is in a WW discussion group and I wanted to discuss the book with them. Definitely not the best antiracist book I've read this year, and I'm a little skeptical of the (white) author's opinions. But, I did appreciate the abundance of real-life examples, dialogu......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on May 26, 2021

I found the book to be an interesting read. I knew after the introduction that the bok was not written for my demographic. I wanted to see the way in which the writer was going. I found that this walks an interesting line and actually will help those who will let down their resistance and self forti......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on July 14, 2020

"One criticism involves the tendency to use the noun “ally” as a label. Some argue that the term can be taken to mean that once someone achieves the status of an ally that the person has reached a sufficient level of consciousness across the board and can discontinue internal work. For this reason,......more

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