This is a book of workshops that teachers can bring into their classrooms to enrich their students’ ability to engage in the complex issues they face around race and racism.  Though the title reflects a desire to help White teachers experience the satisfaction of helping to undo racism, the detailed nature of the workshops also offers Teachers of Color more ways to manifest anti-racism education in their classrooms.

The breadth of workshops provides a comprehensive platform from which to begin engaging students.  It guides teachers (and community educators) in one workshop to help White students move beyond guilt to action.  Another shows how to refocus class willingness to engage anew when some White students have been feeling “bashed” by talking about racism “so much.”  A third provides an example of how a teacher can guide students whose ethnicity they don’t share in dealing with the Daily Indignities cast upon those students.

One chapter takes students through a systems picture in such detail that they can actually feel the linkages between the multiple ways institutions reinforce prejudice.  Another provides a useful curriculum for a teacher who can only slip in 75 minutes a year on exploring racism. Others look at ways to engage students on the topic in an art or a science class.  Though a mix of workshops focusing on student emotions and analytical approaches, there is a heart-centeredness in the work, a compassionate approach to engaging students at whatever point they are in unpacking the racial information that has so far come to them.