White-dominant culture operates as a social mechanism granting advantages to white people, because they can navigate society both by feeling normal and being viewed as normal. What “normal” elements of your organizational culture are toxic? Here are a few examples:
- Worship of the Written Word
- Right to Comfort
- Binary Thinking
- Fear of Open Conflict
- Power Hoarding
Source: Calling Up Justice
Link to Additional Resources
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FURTHER READING
Kenneth Jones & Tema Okun. ChangeWork, 2001
WHITE CULTURE WORKSHEET
https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/RSJI/GRE/whiteculturehandout.pdf
National Museum of African American History and Culture
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness
From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001
https://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/preserve/museums/files/White_Supremacy_Culture.pdf
Systems of White Supremacy and White Privilege
White Supremacy Culture in Organizations
https://coco-net.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Coco-WhiteSupCulture-ENG4.pdf
Pulling Apart the Glue of White Supremacy Culture
https://oaesv.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Pulling-Apart-the-Glue-of-White-Supremacy-Culture.pdf