Club’s discussion on White Privilege and Racism Continues
SENIOR PEACE CLUB
By Nancy Goldstein
LW contributor
The Senior Peace Club’s next meeting will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 2 p.m. The group will continue discussing the topic of race, the unfinished business of our time. A YouTube video with Robin DiAngelo titled “Deconstructing White Privilege” will be viewed and discussed during the meeting as well. DiAngelo received a Ph.D in multicultural education from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2004. Currently, she is an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her area of research is in whiteness studies and critical discourse analysis, tracing how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives. She has numerous publications and books, including “Is Everybody Really Equal?” and “An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education,” which was co-written with Özlem Sensoy. In 2011, she coined the term “white fragility” in an academic article which influenced the international dialogue on race. Her book, “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” was released in June 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it remained for 85 weeks.
Dr. DiAngelo has been a consultant, educator and facilitator for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice and has worked with a wide range of organizations including private, nonprofit and governmental. She says she grew up poor and white. While her class oppression had been relatively visible to her, her race privilege had not. In her efforts to uncover how race shaped her life, she gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of her analysis and asking how each of her other group locations have socialized her to collude with racism. She now makes the distinction that she grew up poor and white, for her experience of poverty would have been different had she not been white.
There are three options to join the meeting: 1. Type the link into the web browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 86896188281?pwd=M0dCeklMR0dGdXBZZnJKNEg0RGo3UT09.
2. Go to www.zoom.com, click “join a meeting,” which will be in blue at the top of the webpage, and enter the Zoom ID number: 868 9618 8281. When prompted, enter password 667699, and then “launch meeting.”
3. Join the meeting by telephone (audio only) by calling (669) 900-6833. When asked, enter the ID number 86896188281.
For more information, call Don Koepke at (562) 330-3397.
