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.
Ali Michael is a filmmaker and educator with a PhD in Teacher Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Anthropology and Education from Teachers College. During her doctoral work, she studied the common questions, dilemmas and successes of White teachers who were learning to address racial inequity in their classrooms and schools. As an adjunct instructor at Penn, she teaches a course that she designed, entitled "Whiteness: Counseling and Educational Perspectives."
Her current research focuses on supporting teachers to mitigate the unintentional, pervasive effects of institutional and individual racism in their classrooms. She also studies how white families racially socialize their children.
Ali has made two films, both of which portray students discussing their experiences of race. She is also the author of "My Scar, My Road," the biography of South African feminist activist Gertrude Nonzwakazi Sgwentu, which demonstrates the long-term effects of racism and White supremacy on one woman growing up under Apartheid.
Ali is also a Friends Council on Education presenter and a guest blogger for the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Education.
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.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/intersectionsradio/2012/12/03/guest-interview-with-dr-ali-michael
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It is comforting to know that
It is comforting to know that there are teachers who recognize that social issues need to be addressed in the classroom as well as the curriculum. I believe that studying how white families raise their children is unbelievably important. We have all heard the expression that racism is learned at home, but I don't recall any other studies actually looking into how children in white families are raised. It is much more beneficial to understand how racism is spread to our children than to try to change their beliefs after they are older and perhaps more set in their ways.