How Can I Have A Positive Racial Identity? I’m White! | Ali Michael
Project LEARN Category
L- Listen
E- Educate
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
White Privilege
Video Details
Creator: TEDx Talks
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Running Time: 16:28
Video Synopsis
Ali Michael digs deep into the white psyche as she confronts the traditional narrative of what it means to be a white American. Ali discusses the racial politics of being white. Ali Michael, Ph.D., is the Director of K-12 Consulting and Professional Development at the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Race Institute for K-12 Educators. She is the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry and Education (2015, Teachers College Press): a book designed to support teachers in the long term and personal process of understanding the role that race plays in their lives and in their classrooms. She is also co-editor of Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories (2015, Stylus Press). She and her partner, Michael, live in Philadelphia and consider questions of race and education on a daily basis in the raising of their two children.