White Privilege 101

1. White Privilege 101 Disclaimer As part of my commitment to diversity education and social justice I strive to make my workshop materials freely available. I hope they are put to good use in continuing the pursuit of justice. However, please remember, the true substance of these workshops is not found in these documents, it is found within the workshop experience. If you view these documents without having seen how I use them, a faulty assumption may be made regarding my viewpoint. Therefore, I simply ask that if you have any questions at all, please contact me. I’d be happy to share my viewpoint. Be well, Art Munin art@artmunin.com 773-316-2276 Facebook Group – “White Privilege 101” Art Munin Consulting www.artmunin.com

2. Stories are the secret reservoir of values : change the stories individuals and nations live by…and you change the individuals and nations.- Ben Okri

3. PRIVILEGE Class Gender Race Able-bodied Religion Sexual Orientation

4. Male Privilege http://i.a.cnn.net/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/12/20/gallery.ioossportraits/web004.jpg Maria Sharapova

5. Heterosexual Privilege 1,049 Sources of Law Of these, 179 (17%) refer to tax laws

6. 4 Chronological Stages of Media Representation Non-recognition Ridicule Regulation Respect

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12. Christian Privilege • Jewish • Buddhist • Muslim • Hindu If the world was 100 people, how would the demographics by religion map out? • Christian • Non-Religious (Atheist or Agnostic) • Followers of Indigenous Religions • Chinese Traditional

13. Christian Privilege 33 Christians21 Muslims16 Non-religious (atheist, agnostic, secular) 14 Hindus6 Buddhists 6 Followers of Indigenous Religions 6 Chinese Traditional * Jews (number is below 1 person) Total = 102 due to statistical rounding errors Source - http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

14. Class Privilege Is it possible to work very hard in America and achieve financial success?

15. Class Privilege Is it possible to NOT work very hard in America and achieve financial success?

16. Class Privilege Is it possible to work very hard in America and NOT achieve financial success? ?

17. Able-Bodied Privilege Question for you

19. White Privilege Time Line Early 1600s Approximately 50 wealthy Englishmen acquired financial interests in the Virginia Company of London. Mid 1600s The total number of working servants in the new American colonies outnumbered the “gentleman” by as much as 100 to 1 Mid 1600s In Virginia there are at least 10 documented servant revolts 1676 Bacon’s Rebellion 1680 In response to these uprisings, legislators began enacting a series of Slave Codes through 1705.

20. White Privilege Time Line 1755 Massachusetts Legislature: 40 pounds for every Indian male scalp, 20 pounds for every female or male scalp under the age of 12. 1790 The Naturalization Act 1830 The Indian Removal Act

22. White Privilege Time Line Vaiden, Mississippi

23. White Privilege Time Line 1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Spring 2008 - http://www.absolute-mexico.com/absolute-vodka-ad/absolute-vodka-ad-restores-mexicos-historical-borders/ 1850 Fugitive Slave Act

24. White Privilege Time Line 1858 President Lincoln’s Conflicting Views

25. Abraham Lincoln July, 1858 in Chicago, IL: “Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.”

26. Abraham Lincoln September, 1858 in Charleston, IL: “I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people… And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”

27. White Privilege Time Line 1862 The state of Slavery August, 1862: Exchange of letters appeared in the New York Tribune between Lincoln and Horace Greeley, editor of the paper. “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves, I would do it…”

28. White Privilege Time Line 1862 The Morrill Act 1862 100 million acres of the American Indians former land is given, free of charge, to the railroads. 1875 The Civil Rights Act of 1875 1879 Education of American Indians 1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee – Bureau of the Census

29. White Privilege Time Line 1898 11/9/1898 – Wilmington, NC – The White Man’s Declaration of Independence. 1908 Virginia enacts a law that makes rape punishable by death. 1924 Oriental Exclusion Act 1924 The Johnson-Reed Act:

30. White Privilege Time Line 1924 Pop Quiz: What group in 1924 was finally granted U.S citizenship? 1934 National Housing Act 1935 National Labor Relations Act 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066

31. University of the Pacific - http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3s2006xh?&brand=calisphere

32. White Privilege Time Line 1945 The Atomic Bomb http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/the_kiss1.jpg War in Europe Ends May 8, 1945 http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/47/91847-004-669368AC.jpg Hiroshima, Japan August 6, 1945 http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/00169/00169d0d.jpg Nagasaki, Japan August 9, 1945

33. White Privilege Time Line Roeder, G.H. (1995). The Censored War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

34. White Privilege Time Line 1947 GI Bill 1947 Pop Quiz: Who becomes the first African American to play major league baseball? Extra Credit: What number did he wear? 1948 The Evacuation Claims Act 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education 1965 Pop Quiz: Who was assassinated on 2/21/65?

35. White Privilege Time Line 1966 Still in this year over half of the states prohibited black-white marriages 1968 Pop Quiz: Who was assassinated on 4/4/68? 1970 Jackson State College http://www.may41970.com/Jackson%20State/jackson_state_may_1970.htm

36. White Privilege Time Line 1956-1971 F.B.I. Counterintelligence Program: COINTELPRO 1994 Crack vs. Cocaine 1996 Proposition 209

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39. White Privilege Time Line 1997 President Clinton hints at an apology for Slavery 1977-1998 The Death Penalty 2001-2002 White Collar Crime 2001 Human Genome Project

40. White Privilege Contemporary 2005 Hurricane Katrina

41. White Privilege Contemporary 2009 President Obama is sworn into office http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/16/scenes-from-the-white-house/

42. White Privilege Contemporary

43. White Privilege Contemporary

44. White Privilege Contemporary Environmental Justice (Bullard, 2005)

45. White Privilege Contemporary Environmental Justice (Maier, Arrighi, Morray, Llewllyn & Redding, 1998)

46. White Privilege Contemporary Environmental Justice Fowler, Davenport & Garg,1992

47. White Privilege Contemporary Environmental Justice Fowler, Davenport & Garg,1992

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49. Keeping It In Perspective

50. Action Orientated This is not knowledge for the sake of knowledge, this is knowledge for the sake of action.