Teaching Resources on Allyship & Privilege

Students from Georgetown University’s Spring 2017 Peace Education course (JUPS-407) have cultivated a collection of teaching resources and articles on privilege and allyship in support of their upcoming April 18 teach-in: “Fostering & Sustaining Allyship at Georgetown: A Dialogue on Understanding Privilege.”

About the teach-in

This teach-in on allyship seeks to address systemic identity-based violence emboldened by the current political climate –  violence that impacts individuals at Georgetown and across the country. Students recognize that their privileges often perpetuate ignorance in the face of inherent discrimination and structural violence in our community. Therefore, it is imperative that students cultivate allyship to act against injustice within their communities.

Being an ally means immersing ourselves and engaging in tangible action towards combating the prejudices faced by peers as well as encouraging others to do the same. Through interactive exercises and dialogue, this teach-in will create a space for reflection on what allyship means and how we can be active allies in our community.

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Recommended Resources

PRIVILEGE

• “Dear White America” by George Yancy (Originally published in The New York Times on December 24th, 2015)
• “Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person,” by Gina Crosley-Corcoran (Originally published on The Huffington Post)
• “Homelessness: It’s About Race, Not Just Poverty” by Ralph da Costa Nunez (Originally published in City Limits on March 5th, 2012)
• “The Origins of Privilege” by Joshua Rothman (Originally published in The New Yorker on May 12th, 2014)
• “Power, Privilege, and Oppression” facilitated by Antoinette Myers and Yuka Ogino (Originally published on ScrippsCollege.edu)
• “True Solidarity: Moving Past Privilege Guilt,” by Jamie Utt (Originally published on Everyday Feminism on March 26th, 2014)
• “White Privilege as Economic Reality: It Would Take African Americans 228 Years to Reach the Same Level of Wealth as Whites” by Chauncey Devega (Originally published in Salon on August 21st, 2016)

ALLYSHIP

• “Allyship After Trump” by Iain Espey (Originally published in The Stanford Daily on November 28th, 2016)
• “Ally Etiquette 101: Never Feel Entitled to Anything” by Philippe Leonard Fradet (Originally published in The Body Is Not an Apology on October 5th, 2016)
• “Allyship Post-Trump: 5 Things to Remember” by Hoda Katebi (Originally published in the Chicago Monitor on November 22nd, 2016)
• “How to Be an Ally” by Conor Friedersdorf (Originally published in The Atlantic on May 5th, 2016)
• “How to Be an Ally to a Person Facing Bigotry in Trump’s America” by Noor Suleiman (Originally published in The Huffington Post on November 30th, 2016)
• “How to Be a True Ally in Trump’s America” by Ernest Owens (Originally published in Philadelphia Magazine on November 29th, 2016)
• “So You Call Yourself an Ally: 10 Things All ‘Allies’ Need to Know,” by Jamie Utt (Originally published on Everyday Feminism on November 8th, 2013)
• Guide to Allyship by Amélie Lamont

EDUCATION

• “Can Poetry Revolutionize the Parent Teacher Conference?” by Alex Zimmerman (Originally published in The Atlantic on April 5th, 2016)
• “The Psychological Approach to Educating Kids” by Victoria Clayton (Originally published in The Atlantic on March 30th, 2016)

CURRENT EVENTS

• “All Lives Matter Didn’t Show Up For a Meeting About Missing Black and Brown Teens” by Julia Craven (Originally published in The Huffington Post on March 28th, 2017)
• “Pepsi Pulls Ad Accused of Trivializing Black Lives Matter” by Daniel Victor (Originally published on The New York Times on April 5th, 2017)