Film Seventeen

How Whiteness Operates

Interrogating Sociological Whiteness

In this film above, Restorative Practices Convener Gabriel Kram explores why we, as white folk in America, don't very well understand what whiteness is, and how we can create a more useful context for relating across difference by re-framing how we approach and understand sociological whiteness.

Related Practices:

See Relating Across Difference, Common Ways of Disconnecting, Relational Mindfulness, Reflective Listening, and our film The Space Between Us

Who taught us this?

We have been studying this for years with Lee Mun Wah and Rainbow Markell. Our thinking has been shaped by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coats, Robin DiAngelo, Anne Rhodes, and John Biewen, as well as our colleagues D'Andre Fisher, Dr. Karla Scott, Dr. Jen Carerra, Carianya Napoli, Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, Eric Pankonin, Doug Woodson, Rucha Chitnis, Serife Wong, Katrin Welch, Salina Mae, Cherine Badawi, Natalie Thoreson, and others.

Teach me how

Check here for classes.

Who taught us this?

We have been studying this for years with Lee Mun Wah and Rainbow Markell. Our thinking has been shaped by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coats, Robin DiAngelo, Anne Rhodes, and John Biewen, as well as our colleagues D'Andre Fisher, Dr. Karla Scott, Dr. Jen Carerra, Carianya Napoli, Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, Eric Pankonin, Doug Woodson, Rucha Chitnis, Serife Wong, Katrin Welch, Salina Mae, Cherine Badawi, Natalie Thoreson, and others.

Teach me how

Check here for classes.

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