Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It

Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do ItWitnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color. Questioning the implications our history has for personal lives and social institutions, the book considers political,

That’s what Squirrel says

and the world

you’ll learn to move past your faults

did their parents manage to find their true match after all

when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff

When a girl is asked where she’s from—where she’s really from—none of her answers seems to be the right one

their school culture is threatened by an influential foe in disguise

but it would also mean leaving his brother

Many things come in twos: dualities

The Big Jobs

but according to her parents

Readers will delight in this spirited story of the invention of the potato chip - one of America's favorite snack foods