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"With range, depth, and integrity, the narratives in this collection flesh out both the 'promise and the way of life' of white people who have taken on racism as central to their life work. "White Men Challenging Racism" is a valuable contradiction to the construct of 'angry white men' that has fueled racial backlash over the past twenty years."--Mab Segrest, author of "Memoirs of a Race Traitor"
List of contents
Foreword / James W. Loewen xv
Preface xxxi
Acknowledgments xxxv
Introduction: Just Living 1
Movement Elders
Herbert Aptheker, 86, radical historian; San Jose, CA 17
Stetson Kennedy, 85, journalist and Klan infiltrator; Jacksonville, FL 27
Art Branscombe, 81, fought for a racially integrated neighborhood; Denver, CO 37
Horace Seldon, 77, coalition builder; Boston, MA 44
Pat Cusick, 70, community organizer; Boston, MA 51
Nat Yalowitz, 70, social worker and organizer; New York, NY 60
Grassroots Organizing
Jesse Wimberley, 43, organizes working-class white men; West End, NC 73
Jim Hansen, 42, executive director, United Vision for Idaho; Boise, ID 82
Chip Berlet, 52, researches right wing groups; Cambridge, MA 90
Joe Fahey, 44, union official and labor organizer; Watsonville, CA 99
Mike McMahon, 60, community organizer with Central American immigrants; Houston, TX 109
Art and Politics
David Attyah, 34, graphic artist and founder of Think Again; San Francisco, CA 121
Si Kahn, 57, singer/songwriter and executive director of Grassroots Leadership; Charlotte, NC 132
Steve Bailey, 43, executive director of Jump-Start Performance Company; San Antonio, TX 143
Tim Wise, 33, writer, lecturer, social critic, and activist; Nashville, TN 152
Billy Yalowitz, 42, community-based performance director and choreographer; Philadelphia, PA 164
Challenging the System from Within
John Allocca, 39, bilingual Spanish teacher; Boston, MA 175
Bill Johnston, 60, former Boston police officer; Emerald Isle, NC 185
A. T. Miller, 43, teacher and director of multiculturalism at University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI 194
Ken Kimerling, 56, lawyer for Puerto Rican and Asian American civil rights; New York, NY 203
Monte Piliawsky, 57, teacher and historian; Detroit, MI 212
Lonnie Lusardo, 56, consultant and community organizer; Seattle, WA 222
Lee Formwalt, 51, historian and dean at a historically black college; Albany, GA 228
Nibs Stroupe, 55, minister of a multiracial congregation; Decatur, GA 237
Challenging the System from the Margins
John Cole Vodicka, 53, founder of the Prison and Jail Project; Americus, GA 249
Richard Lapchick, 56, advocate for racial and gender justice in sports and society; Orlando FL 258
Chris Shuey, 46, environmental health specialist; Albuquerque, NM 265
Terry Kupers, 58, psychiatrist, prison activist, and author; Oakland, CA 272
Rick Whaley, 51, Native American treaty rights advocate; Milwaukee, WI 280
Jim Murphy, 54, firefighter and advocate for children's rights in Southeast Asia; Boston, MA 289
The Next Generation
Sean Cahill, 38, researcher with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; New York, NY
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Tobin Miller Shearer, 36, director of a Mennonite anti-racism initiative; Akron, PA 305
Jason Wallach, 32, grassroots coordinator for the Mexico Solidarity Network; Chicago, IL 314
Bill Vandenberg, 31, co-executive director of the Colorado Progressive Coalition; Denver, CO 322
Matt Reese, 26, community activist; Louisville, KY 330
Appendix 339
Endnotes 343
Suggestions for Further Reading 351
About the Authors 355
About the author
Cooper Thompson is a senior consultant at visions, a multicultural consulting organization.
Emmett Schaefer is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Harry Brod is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the editor of The Making of Masculinities.
Summary
Features narratives exploring the lives, experiences and feelings on racism from anti-racist white men who are committed to social justice.
