White Culture Identity:

1. White Culture Identity:

2. Question: • What do you think white identity is? • How would you define it? • Have you ever heard this term mentioned previously?

3. Definition: • White Identity- The ability to attach ownership to values and goals given by family and cultural background. • White privilege-A set of perceived advantages enjoyed by white people beyond those commonly experienced by non-white people in the same social, political and economic spaces.

4. Developmental Stages of White Identity: • Helm’s White Racial Identity Model • Seven Stages of White Identity • Contact • Disintegration • Reintegration • Pseudoindependence • Immersion • Emmersion • Autonomy

5. Contact: • Occurs through meeting someone of different race • Vicariously • Through media

6. Disintegration: • “Whiteness” is acknowledged • Social belief of race is questioned • Anxiety, guilt or shame felt between racial values and discrimination

7. Reintergration: • Person accepts the belief in White racial superiority • Wants to preserve white racial superiority • Chooses racism as a means of dealing with diversity

8. Pseudo-Independence: • Beings to question their previous definition of “whiteness” • Justifies racism in its various forms

9. Immersion/Emersion: • Internal drive to promote positive change in oneself and one’s fellow “whites” • “How can I be proud of my race without being racist?”

10. Autonomy: • Race is no longer a threat to white people • Continually open to new information and growth • Flexible • Open-minded • Work towards eliminating other forms of oppression • Not involved in activities that perpetuate racism

11. Embracing White Identity: • More about culture than color of skin • Teachers must self analyze on their racial status

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