White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories/White Men On Race: Power, Privilege, and the Shaping Of Cultural Consciousness

From: The Crisis | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

books Considering Race: White Men Talk About the Color Line White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories Edited by Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer and Harry Brod (Duke University Press, $64.95/$21.95 paper) White Men On Race: Power, Privilege, and the Shaping Of Cultural Consciousness By Joe Feagin and Eileen O'Brien (Beacon Press, $26)

The premise of these two books is that certain White men have something important to say concerning the struggle against racism. In the better of the two, White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories, they speak for themselves. In White Men On Race: ...

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