White Supremacy Culture – Tema Okun

Tema Okun wrote this paper in 1999 and has remained central to efforts by many people to both understand and transgress white supremacy culture. The paper describes white supremacy culture as a devastating force in all our lives, used by ruling class power brokers to maintain vast and violent structural inequality.

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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

This “classic” essay, written in 1989 by American feminist scholar and anti-racist activist McIntosh covers 50 examples, or hidden benefits, from McIntosh’s perspective, of the privilege white people experience in everyday life.

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Triple Nickles – 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion

The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, nicknamed the “Triple Nickles” (using the English spelling of ‘nickel’), was a World War II African American unit of the U.S. Army stationed in Pendleton in 1945. The battalion, first organized in November 1943 at Fort Benning, Georgia, was made up of voluntary transfers from other organizations. Created when the U.S. military…

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Words Matter, And It’s Time To Explore The Meaning Of “Ableism.”

“If you read more than one or two articles on disability issues, or talk to just about any disability rights activist, you will run across the word “ableism.” The word does a lot of work for disability culture. It carries the weight of the worst of what plagues disabled people the most, but can be so hard to express…

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