Conversation Of The Week XIX: Understanding The White Supremacist Consciousness And Identity

January 30, 2012
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in
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Members of the ECCW are pictured clockwise from the upper left: Linda Sartor, Ph.D., Carole Barlas, Ph.D., Doug Paxton, Ph.D., Penny Rosenwasser, Ph.D., Alec MacLeod, M.F.A., and Elizabeth Kasl, Ph.D. Photo Credit: iconoclastic.net

Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.


In this segment, The European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness (ECCW), engages in a discussion on the research and learning about White Supremacist Consciousness and White identity.


Collective authorship under one name reflects our understanding of the way knowledge is constructed. We came together originally through a cultural consciousness project at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco; current members are Carole Barlas, Elizabeth Kasl, Alec MacLeod, Doug Paxton, Penny Rosenwasser, and Linda Sartor.


Intersections Radio is hosted by Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., founder of the White Privilege Conference (WPC), which is held annually in cities across the United States; and Daryl Miller, who works with the WPC and other programs of the Matrix Center. The WPC is an award-winning national diversity conference that serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression, and works to dismantle systems of power, prejudice, and inequality.


College students from around the country participate in the conference for academic credit.

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interested

Submitted by SBU-28S2012 on

i am interested in discussing popular race topics with other scholarly people. woo hoo

Education

Submitted by SBU-16S2012 on

I think it is great that so many people are taking the time to better understand race relations. Even short segments of information, like the one mentioned above, can help to broaden people's horizons and allow them to see things, like race, in a whole new light. We must work for equality, and that starts with education.