Whiteness Project is an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as white, or partially white, understand and experience their race.
Do you notice that people muse that racism will die out because "young people aren't racist" and that "racism will die out when more old people die."
This is a fallacy. We are all enculturated into a hierarchy based on race.
The Whiteness Project defines their work:
Whiteness Project is conducting interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked about their relationship to, and their understanding of, their own whiteness. Each video interview is paired with a statistic that provides a greater societal context and offers an opportunity for self-reflection by the audience on their own thoughts about race.
Leilani, 17 believes that racism will go away if we stop talking about it. “Stop talking about racism. Just stop.”
The Whiteness Project illustrates that we have all inherited a system of hierarchy based on race, one which we can't disrupt without consciousness of whiteness.
The recent five-part series Let's talk about whiteness unpacks this for more learning and unlearning.
Fellow leaders and learners, I wish you courage and resilience for the journey.