new book: White Privilege and Community Building

[colist at comm-org.wisc.edu]

[ed:  congrats to Maggie and colleagues on the new publication. And 
appreciation to them for providing it as a free download.]

From:
"Maggie Potapchuk" <mpotapchuk at comcast.net>


We are pleased to announce a new publication:
 
Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building
        "...one of the major contradictions in our work: the
intention to bring resources (people, ideas, time, money) into a community
or a neighborhood to make something better, and how the ways we go about
this work can maintain or even reinforce the power inequities and racially
biased policies and practices that created the problems in the first place."
 
Flipping the Script is a monograph designed for people who work in
communities to identify and address issues of white privilege, oppression,
racism and power as they play out in this work.  It is for community
builders, grant makers, technical assistance providers and others who are
trying to develop more equitable and thoughtful partnerships with community
residents and organizations.  
The monograph is in four major sections.  The first section defines key
terms, reviews the monograph's premises, and analyzes early responses to
Hurricane Katrina to illustrate white privilege and racism in action at
multiple levels.  The second section goes into depth about four key
concepts: community building, racism, internalized racism, and white
privilege.  The third section applies these concepts to
community/foundations partnerships specifically.  It addresses
interventions, evaluation, and multiracial coalitions and partnerships.  The
fourth section includes a chapter about doing one's own work on white
privilege, written primarily for white people, and a summary chapter with
recommendations for the field.
Flipping the Script is written by Maggie Potapchuk - MP Associates, Sally
Leiderman- Center for Assessment and Policy Development and with Donna
Bivens - Women's Theological Center and Barbara Major - St. Thomas Health
Clinic.     Collectively, we offer this resource as people deeply invested
in community building work.  An analysis of community building through the
lens of white privilege suggests many places in which we might do our work
differently.  It also questions the most basic premises of this work.  
The file is available at www.capd.org <http://www.capd.org/> .  Please feel
free to share this announcement in your newsletter, website or listserv and
any other way you wish.  The authors also encourage readers to contact them
to discuss any of the ideas put forth in the monograph.  We look forward to
hearing from you.  


Maggie Potapchuk
MP Associates, Inc
301-460-1063
301-460-1064-fax
mpotapchuk at comcast.net