1. White Culture Identity:

2. Question: What do you think white identity is?
How would you define it?
Have you ever heard this term mentioned previously?

3. Definition:
White Identity- The ability to attach ownership to values and goals given by family and cultural background.
White privilege-A set of perceived advantages enjoyed by white people beyond those commonly experienced by non-white people in the same social, political and economic spaces.

4. Developmental Stages of White Identity:
Helm’s White Racial Identity Model
Seven Stages of White Identity
Contact
Disintegration
Reintegration
Pseudoindependence
Immersion
Emmersion
Autonomy

5. Contact: Occurs through meeting someone of different race Vicariously
Through media

6. Disintegration: “Whiteness” is acknowledged
Social belief of race is questioned
Anxiety, guilt or shame felt between racial values and discrimination

7. Reintergration: Person accepts the belief in White racial superiority
Wants to preserve white racial superiority
Chooses racism as a means of dealing with diversity

8. Pseudo-Independence:
Beings to question their previous definition of “whiteness”
Justifies racism in its various forms

9. Immersion/Emersion:
Internal drive to promote positive change in oneself and one’s fellow “whites”
“How can I be proud of my race without being racist?”

10. Autonomy: Race is no longer a threat to white people
Continually open to new information and growth
Flexible
Open-minded
Work towards eliminating other forms of oppression
Not involved in activities that perpetuate racism

11. Embracing White Identity:
More about culture than color of skin
Teachers must self analyze on their racial status

12. What does this mean to educators?
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