EP99: Katie Friedman on Understanding Whiteness & the Relationship between Personal and Collective Healing

Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson

What She Shares:

• The historical foundations of the consolidation of whiteness

• Collective Healing vs. Personal Healing-- How Are They Related-- are they automatic?

• The timeline of the emergence of the new wave of identity politics and its impact

What You’ll Hear:

• The role of collective and individual healing in race relations

• Beginning of “whiteness” as a concept

• How whiteness has manifested into what is seen throughout the world today

• Societal role of immigrants within early America

• How other groups view whiteness

• Acknowledging white privilege

• Differentiating between white guilt and white privilege, and how to use it for change

• Understanding why identity politics are so strong today

• The role of white people within minority studies

• How to turn understanding and solidarity into change

• How racism is institutionalized and indoctrinated

• The power shift of White = Good to White = Bad

Resources:

How Jews Became White Folks by Karen Brodkin Sacks

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsitz