Creative Equity Toolkit

What is white supremacy culture?

This website provides an overview of what white supremacy is, as well as various resources on white supremacy from different authors and thinkers.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Influential article identifying ways racism benefits white people each day, with a checklist of 50 items, for example:

'I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the "person in charge", I will be facing a person of my race'

'If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race.'

'I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race.'

Why Amy Cooper’s Use of ‘African-American’ Stung

Commentary on an incident in New York when white woman Amy Cooper called the police on African American Christian Cooper, claiming he was threatening her life, though her employer requires employees to take anti-bias training every year.

'there has been little rigorous evaluation of the training strategies deployed to combat it, and as a result we simply don’t know enough about what makes a difference. “It often has the feeling of being a one-and-done kind of thing: ‘We did it'."